Taste Quotes - Page 46

Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

DJ Jazzy Jeff is the best DJ you can have at a party. Did you see his playlist? He has good taste.

Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.

My music tastes are often 20 years behind.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste -- that can be fixed -- but that they don't know they have it!

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.