Taste Quotations

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

I'm proudest of the fact that I fell in step with an audience taste level that I knew how to judge and maybe deliver for, and consistently.

You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

Taste is so much more important than fashion.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those 'ones to tell the grandchildren' memories.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.

I love fashion. For me, it's always interesting because I like to be able to mix up different styles and different brands, kind of like how my music taste or personality is. There's lots of influences.

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

I've always had real good taste; no matter how poor I've been, I've had good taste in clothes.

For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.

We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste,

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.

Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?

Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.

My style is a mashup of different eras, but each piece I have makes me feel good about myself. I do have a taste for expensive shoes.

If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out whats in it.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.