Taste Quotes - Page 16

• I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Dark, Joy, Listening

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• I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.

  David Walliams

  Father, Swimming, Thinking

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

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• Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

  Dominic West

  Wife, Married, Used

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

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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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• 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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• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Artist, Culture, Genius

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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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• 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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• All tastes are expressions of belief.

  Zadie Smith

  Expression, Belief

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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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• I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure.

  John Rabe

  Adventure, Spirit, Sense Of Humor

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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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• I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

  China Mieville

  Sorry, Kids, Sidekicks

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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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• I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

  Abba Kovner

  Experience, World, Want

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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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• I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

  Arielle Dombasle

  Kind, Melancholy, Victim

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

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• I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.

  Stephen Daldry

  Morning, Catholic, Directors

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• Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Imagination, Advertising, Interest

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• It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Uncles, Mind, Genius

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• Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.

  Edna Jaques

  Nature, Children, Miracle

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• Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Attitude, Kids, Mold

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

  Henri Nouwen

  Patience, Live In The Moment, Moments

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.5, Harper Collins

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