Taste Quotes - Page 29

• My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Parent, Style, Inspired

  "Fashion Q&A: Zoë Kravitz". Interview with Celia L. Smith, www.essence.com. March 25, 2013.

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• the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.

  Ann Bridge

  Lying, Essence, Ease

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.9, A&C Black

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• No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Art, Drinking, Wagons

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil Simon play in Sansabelt pants, a knit vest, balding, belly sagging - and then there's the men.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Cancer, Men, Play

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• Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive.

  Margery Wilson

  Thinking, Air, Doe

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• A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.

  Hualing Nieh Engle

  Cutting, Knives, Break

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• My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Jobs, Father, India

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• From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

  John Lennon

  Music, Hands, Different

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• The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Artist, Games

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.510, Wordsworth Editions

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• When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.

  Edward Gibbon

  Pride, History, Age

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.137

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• A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical governors. The temple of the Celestial Venus at Carthage, whose sacred precincts formed a circumference of two miles, was judiciously converted into a Christian church; and a similar consecration has preserved inviolate the majestic dome of the Pantheon at Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Numbers, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.562, Wordsworth Editions

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• History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

  Auberon Waugh

  Real, People, Drug

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• ... on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away.

  Margaret Warde

  Orange, Giving, Deals

  Margaret Warde (1906). “Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls”

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• I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Book, Character, Thinking

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• Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

  A. S. Byatt

  Art, Simple, Together

  A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.45, Random House

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• I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Teenage, Love You, Ducks

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• I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

  Corey Taylor

  Kings, Growing Up, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.

  Russell Westbrook

  Basketball, People, Guy

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• It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

  David Eddings

  Personality, Doe, Ugly

  David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.243, Random House

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• When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Twenties, Accepting

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• I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Art, Giving, Permit

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

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• In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

  Helmut Newton

  Art, Vocabulary, Two

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• Im not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter taste. A good steak house will offer different options for preparation, and I would ask them to broil or pan-roast the steak and finish it with butter. It ends up a dark chocolate color and stays very juicy.

  Tom Colicchio

  Dark, Steak House, Color

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• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  J. C. Ryle

  Character, Men, Heaven

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.

  William Johnson Cory

  Art, School, Expression

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