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Taste Quotes - Page 40

I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.

"Comic-Con 2011: Jonathan Nolan, Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, and Taraji P. Henson Talk PERSON OF INTEREST & the Creepiness of Modern Surveillance". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 26, 2011.

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Strong Motion: A Novel”, p.171, Macmillan

A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.216, Hackett Publishing

What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

John Milton (1861). “Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, etc”, p.216

That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.101, Penguin

That tastes like hope feels.

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.256, A&C Black

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.111

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.83, Ravenio Books

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.

Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.107, Diderot Publishing