Flavor Quotes - Page 12

• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Dessert First, Perfect

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• With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

  George Eliot

  Time, Memories, Past

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus”, p.536, 谷月社

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• And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.

  Donna Tartt

  Heart, Home, Kissing

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• If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

  Jodi Picoult

  Coffee, Would Be, Almonds

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

  O. Henry

  Life, War, Men

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.113, Penguin

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• The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

  Abraham Maslow

  Humility, Emotional, Special

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

  Louis Pasteur

  Wine, Delicate

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• I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Believe, Addiction, Desire

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• All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Artist, Grace

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• Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Different, States

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• Heaven and hell are not geographical; they are not something outside you, they are something that belongs to your interiority. If you are awake, then you are in a totally different universe; it is as if in your awakening the whole existence becomes awakened. It takes a new color, a new flavor, a new fragrance. When you are asleep, the whole existence sleeps with you. It all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Color, Different Universes

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• Before brains there was no color or sound in the universe, nor was there any flavor or aroma and probably little sense and no feeling or emotion.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Color, Feelings, Brain

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• "Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Serenity

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• As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Atoms, Salt

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• You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.

  Rumi

  Grief, Taken, Sadness

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• I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

  Bjork

  Men, Thinking, Ice Cream

  Diva magazine, October 2004.

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• I wanna be the ambassador to Chimichanga Flavor Town.

  Guy Fieri

  Ambassadors, Towns

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• The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.

  Ruth Reichl

  Simple, Oil, Perfection

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• Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.

  Markus Zusak

  Stress, Dark, Color

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• To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hate, Order, Two

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• So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.

  Michael Jackson

  Taken, Wine, Beer

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• Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.

  Roger Verge

  Eye, Eggplant, Vegetables

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• Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Inspirational, Men, Air

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• Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Clouds, Essence, Floats

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• The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Lying, Reality

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