Taste Quotes - Page 32

• The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

  Tahir Shah

  Men, Way, Ordinary

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Men, Thinking, Tin

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• Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

  Noah Baumbach

  Defining, Easier, Genuine

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• Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

  A. S. Byatt

  Running, Reality, Looks

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• I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

  Bill Watterson

  Depressing, Way, Kind

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.

  Bill Watterson

  Voice, Different, Gone

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.

  Dolly Parton

  Successful, People, Able

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Fighting, Trying, Pumps

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared about that. I always thought, "Oh, this could be a hit," or "that will sell records." But the first thing I wanted was that people who knew a lot about music, or had taste-making qualities, they would like my stuff. Writers, people like that.

  Randy Newman

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

  Seth Rogen

  Oscars, Voters, Assumption

  "Seth Rogen Talks Hosting the 2012 Spirit Awards, THE APOCALYPSE, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 2, His Favorite Films of the Year, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Excellent, Contemplation, Educated

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.83, Ravenio Books

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• It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christianity, Reason

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• Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Epidemics, Wellness, Illness

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• And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life Is, Disputes, Tasting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

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• Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Desire, Cost

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

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• Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poetry, Criticism, Delicate

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1056, Delphi Classics

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• The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Men, Serenity

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.243, Xist Publishing

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• I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mind, Church, Accessories

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, My Own

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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• If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, College, Men

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• Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandmother, Details, Want

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.35, Harmony

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• For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

  Louis Kronenberger

  People, Brain, Television

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• ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.

  Michelangelo

  Character, Needs, Fortune

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• ... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Crazy, Humanity, Heroism

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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