Taste Quotes - Page 12

• I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

  David Sanborn

  Country, Hip Hop, Different

  "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  K. D. Lang

  People, Musical, Flash

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• Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.

  Jean Smart

  Thinking, Pieces, Body

  "Jean Gets Smart About Fitness and Diet". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. July 20, 1998.

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• Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

  Sarah Sutton

  Strikes, Bad Taste

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• I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

  Stan Sakai

  Limits, My Own

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• The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Building Houses, People, Matter

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.42

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• I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

  Amy Waldman

  Mash Up, Kind, Austen

  "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  Vera Wang

  Arbiter

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• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Doors, Editors, Want

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• Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.

  Daryl Hannah

  Garden, Vegetables, Trying

  "GREEN / Daryl Hannah Speaks Out" by Gregory Dicum, www.sfgate.com. May 3, 2006.

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• Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.

  David Hume

  Art, Kitsch, Firsts

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• Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Dog, Sleep, Writing

  Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

  Criss Jami

  Self, Contentment, Taught

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.93, Criss Jami

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• The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Challenges, Delight, Courageous

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

  Stacy London

  Style, Arguing, Like You

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• I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

  John Lee Hooker

  Light, Cities, Detroit

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• In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

  Phil Ochs

  Boys, Years, Law

  Song: Too Many Martyrs, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing

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• Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears. I love every inch and every part of your entire body. From your toes and the beautifully curved arches of your feet, to the exceptional shade and warmth of your dark hair. I need you in my life, I hope you need me too.

  Nick Cave

  Love You, Dark, Hair

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• A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Money, Car, Railroads

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

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• The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

  Richard Gregory

  Pain, Eye, Smell

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• Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

  Robert James Graves

  Pleasure, Duty, Wells

  Robert James Graves (1863). “Studies in Physiology and Medicine”, p.34

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• The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise.

  Gertrude Berg

  Lonely, Cutting, Order

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• Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

  Terence Tao

  Problem, Should, Mathematician

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• For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

  Harry Knowles

  Years, Perfection, Cinema

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• By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

  Peter York

  Art, Class, Symbolism

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