Taste Quotes - Page 13

• The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Philosophy, Rain, Medicine

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.438, New Directions Publishing

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• ...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

  William Francis Henry King

  Mind, Tongue

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• Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Perfect, Lasts, Revolution

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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• You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Like You, Endearment

  Song: Stepping Stone

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• People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fashion, People, Musical

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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• 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.

  Kurt Masur

  Men, Trying, Enough

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• My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

  Marian McPartland

  Thinking, Hands, Piano

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• I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Home, Remember, Should

  "Q & A with Wolfgang Puck: The Hotel Bel-Air Interview". Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.laweekly.com. December 02, 2011.

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• Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

  Ernestine Rose

  Men, Made, Admire

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• If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

  Rene Redzepi

  Perfect, Example, Plant

  "Interview: René Redzepi" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2010.

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• 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.

  Rene Redzepi

  Letting Go, Raw Materials, Soil

  Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2010.

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• I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

  David Sanborn

  Country, Hip Hop, Different

  "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

  Gail Simmons

  Beautiful, Needs, Mess

  "Gail Simmons Dishes on Top Chef and More". Interview with Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. April 29, 2011.

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• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  K. D. Lang

  People, Musical, Flash

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• Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.

  Jean Smart

  Thinking, Pieces, Body

  "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.

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• Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Mean, Years

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• I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Mistake, Home, Simple

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• Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

  Sarah Sutton

  Strikes, Bad Taste

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

  Stan Sakai

  Limits, My Own

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• I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Dark, Joy, Listening

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• The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Building Houses, People, Matter

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.42

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• I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

  Amy Waldman

  Mash Up, Kind, Austen

  "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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• I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.

  David Walliams

  Father, Swimming, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

  Dominic West

  Wife, Married, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

  Jessie Ware

  Real, Fans, Way

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