Flavor Quotes - Page 8

• Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Taken, Heart

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• I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious.” I turned to Fang. “What say you?” “It’s fine.” Some people just don’t have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

  James Patterson

  Sweet, People, Appreciate

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• In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Kitchen, Vices, Sauce

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Asia, Firsts, Kind

  "The Hot Seat: No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Sarah Bruning, www.timeout.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, … but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that’s usually working in Asian food.

  Tom Colicchio

  Sweet, Two, Asian

  "Q&A with Tom Colicchio". Interview with Victorino Matus, www.weeklystandard.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Although it may not seem like it, this isn’t a story about darkness. It’s about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you’ve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I’m going to hold a lot of joy.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Light, Joy

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 27, 2015

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• TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!

  Stephen Sondheim

  World, Favors, Should

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• I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.

  Tom Colicchio

  Kids, Thinking, Patterns

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• Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Excess, Moderation

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sorcery, Spoons, Sauce

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1143, Bantam

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• Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous"- "Keeping the Moon

  Sarah Dessen

  Moon, Men, Ease

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• Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Soldier, Protected, Died

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• This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

  Justin Torres

  Beer, Men, Cities

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• For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.

  Brady Udall

  Phones, Secret, Phone Calls

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• Some of this story is completely true. And some of it isn't. Like truth, evil comes in all sorts of flavors. Some bitter. Some deceptively sweet. Sometimes it comes with a heavy price. While most people don't invite evil into their lives, the dirty little secret is that an invitation isn't necessary. Locked doors don't matter. Neither do fancy security systems. Evil is kind of amazing when you think about it. She knows how to get inside.

  Gregg Olsen

  Sweet, Dirty, Thinking

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• The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wine, Roots

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• The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

  Janette Rallison

  Ice Cream, Shoes, Short Time

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• There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity

  Marc Levy

  Inspirational, Moments, Eternity

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• ‎"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

  John Connolly

  Jelly, Threatening, Said

  John Connolly (2010). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

  Sean Covey

  Respect, Fruit Salad, Fruits And Vegetables

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Personal Workbook”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)

  Tim Dorsey

  Spiritual, Waiting, Vision

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• I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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• When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup - important for richness of flavor but still not quite the main ingredient. The past is over. It can't and shouldn't be reclaimed. All we ever have is now anyway.

  Alyson Noel

  Past, Thinking, Important

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• For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fighting, Sucker Punch, Knows

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.44, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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