Taste Quotes - Page 26

• I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

  Jessie Ware

  Real, Fans, Way

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• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  Vera Wang

  Arbiter

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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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• We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Possibility

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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 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 have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Research, Equipment, Yacht

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• Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

  Holly Madison

  Mcdonalds, Fast Food, Used

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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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• 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 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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• The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Beautiful, Left

  "Did I say This?". The Observer, April 20, 2008.

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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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• 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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• Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

  Emily Yoffe

  Smell, People, Eating Disorder

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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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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• Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Writing, Thinking, Expression

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