Flavor Quotes - Page 20

• the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Mean, Reflection

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• Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

  Giambattista Basile

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

  Robin Quivers

  Way, Vegan, Horrible

  "Meatless Monday — The Vegucation of Robin Quivers" by Ellen Kanner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

  Michael Imperioli

  Unique, Cities, Numbers

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• The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.

  Elizabeth David

  Giving, Cooking, Superstitions

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• When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.

  Winifred Holtby

  Pain, Love Is, Missing

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

  Margaret Halsey

  Government, Quality, Ashes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

  Rita Dove

  Jobs, Drinking, Water

  Rita Dove (1985). “Fifth Sunday: stories”, Callaloo Poetry Series

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• Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

  Joseph Joubert

  Giving, Soul, Virtue

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• Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Writing, Wine, May

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.341

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• In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor.

  Laurence Sterne

  Music, Wine, Criticism

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• Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Stories, Ingredients

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• We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

  Lin Yutang

  Food, Color, Chinese

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• If you could live in the moment, you would see the flavor of eternity and when you metabolize the experience of eternity, your body doesn't age.

  Deepak Chopra

  Live In The Moment, Age, Body

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she likes nearly every flavor of ice cream. When he heard this, Chris Christie said 'Hey, she stole my speech.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Ice Cream, Hey, Speech

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• Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

  Henry Wriston

  Life, Patriotic, Risk

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• Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  People, Southern, Saws

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• How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Taking Batman globally, not everything is going to have the same flavor as Gotham City; some places are going to be a lot more bright and airy. I would say that his stories are more broad, I guess I would put it that way.

  David Finch

  Cities, Stories, Gotham

  Source: ifanboy.com

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• In Miami, there's a Latin flavor, and I just love every bit of it.

  Ryan Guzman

  Latin, Miami, Bits

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

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• Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

  Natalie Kusz

  Family, Parent, Soul

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• Men are imposible, but after you've had one around nothing ever has quite the flavor without one. It's terrible, really. When they're there you want to shoot them and when they're not you want to shoot yourself.

  Babs Deal

  Men, Want, Terrible

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• The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Food, Yellow, White

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• Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ocean, People, Water

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.

  Mark Rothko

  Real, Giving, Remembrance

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