Taste Quotes - Page 31

• People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

  Michael Patrick King

  People, Okay, Ifs

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• A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Sweet, Caste System, Poison

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• I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.

  Delphine Arnault

  Art, Thinking, Journey

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• I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

  Tiesto

  Sound Quality, Doe, Lucky

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• They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

  Brett Ratner

  Artist, Childhood, Saws

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• I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

  Jasper Fforde

  Rap, Taste In Music, Rats

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

  Kelis

  Chef, Figures, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Talking, Roots, Young Writers

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• Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

  Eric Schlosser

  People, Care, Fast Food

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• The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

  Georges Rouault

  Spiritual, Smell, Giving

  "Stella Vespertina". Book by Georges Rouault, 1947.

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• Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan

  Anne Carson

  Ocean, Blessed, Night

  Anne Carson (2015). “Antigonick”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

  Lee Radziwill

  Mother, Children, Opposites

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• It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

  Ernestine Rose

  Men, Rights, Giving

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

  Olivia Holt

  Heaven, Milk, Obsession

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

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• In a new issue of Esquire magazine, they revealed that before he was married to Teresa Heinz, Senator John Kerry dated Morgan Fairchild, Michelle Phillips, Catherine Oxenberg and Dana Delany. Finally a Democratic presidential candidate with good taste in women.

  Jay Leno

  Issues, Presidential, Magazines

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• Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes, and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Vegetables, Light, Way

  "The new vegetarian" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2008.

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• There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.

  Alice Oswald

  Real, Government, Voice

  "Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot poetry prize" by Alice Oswald, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

  Peter Temple

  Hero, Writing, Personality

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• You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.

  Paul Engle

  Vanity, Drug, Stores

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

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• I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

  Aaron Huey

  Thinking, Mouths, Want

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• There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Knives

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.111

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• "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Want

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.326

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• The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1865). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.246

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• We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Desire, Born, Know How

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