Best 1022 quotes in «taste quotes» category

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath any more.

The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.

The reason it's called "Grape Nuts" is that it contains "dextrose," which is also sometimes called "grape sugar," and also because "Grape Nuts" is catchier, in terms of marketing, than "A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel," which is what it tastes like.

There are many wines that taste great, but do not drink well

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

There's no common taste in this world.

There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.

There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself.

They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?

They never taste who always drink.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.

The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

The United States must get a taste of its own poison.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

The taste of death is upon my lips.  I feel something that is not of this earth.

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

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

This soup tastes like windows

This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.