Taste Quotes - Page 34

• In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, San Francisco, Invasion

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Believe, Giving, Deception

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• What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Beauty, Assessment, Appreciate

  "A Primer on Environmental Decision-Making: An Integrative Quantitative Approach". Book by Knut Lehre Seip, Fred Wenstop, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 184, 2006.

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• As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Appreciate, Understanding

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• Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hate, Thinking, Principles

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• Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

  Ruby Dee

  People, Giving, Tunes

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• Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me.

  William A. Drake

  Caviar, Eating, Herring

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• Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

  Christina Stead

  Strength, Art, Errors

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

  Emily Eden

  Jealousy, Real, Hard Work

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.8

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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• Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.

  John Thorne

  Two, Oneness, Apples

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• When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.

  Paula Wolfert

  Food, Simple, Looks

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• It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.

  Mel Brooks

  Issues, Would Be, Film

  "Mel Brooks Remembers the Funniest Movie He Ever Made". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2014.

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• It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

  Christopher Bollen

  America, Quality, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

  Leif Garrett

  Crazy, Stupid, Charity

  "Leif Garrett to Justin Bieber: 'Don't believe your own publicity'". Interview with Diana Falzone, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2013.

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• Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Lunch, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.

  Isla Fisher

  Watches, Film, Eclectic

  "Isla Fisher Talks Performing Escapist Tricks, Her Chemistry with the Cast, THE GREAT GATSBY, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview on the set, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

  Angel Deradoorian

  Song, Art, Different

  "Angel Deradoorian’s Cleaner Side". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.

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• You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

  Ashley Greene

  Want, Littles, Comedy

  "Ashley Greene Talks Shooting in Berlin, Her Favorite Horror Films, and Her Pro-Active Character on the Set of THE APPARITION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Cost, Morality

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• There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

  J. C. Chandor

  Avant Garde, Elements, Kind

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• LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

  Mark Hamill

  Summer, Love You, Reading

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• Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Light, Darkness

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.7, Image

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• To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Play, Shows, Relativity

  "Jean Paul Gaultier's rich history as a costume designer deserves praise" by Simon Jablonski, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.

  Anuj

  Men, Networking, Substance

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