Taste Quotes - Page 31

• No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Running, Office, Public Office

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• A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Smell, Hustle, World

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.379, Del Rey

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• Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Water, Tolerance

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• We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Life, Sweet, Cups

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.315, Macmillan

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• People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!

  Carmelo Anthony

  Failure, Fall, Heart

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• Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A very important thing about DJing that’s missed nowadays is the trendsetting and the taste-making.

  Laidback Luke

  Important, Important Things

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• I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.

  Stephen Bayley

  Discovery, Achievement, Artistic

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• There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Life, Success, Son

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• As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Garden, Smell

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• The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

  Salvador Dali

  Wine, Secret, Doe

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• Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

  H. L. Mencken

  Underestimate, Never Underestimate, Bad Taste

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• I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

  Ed Zern

  Morning, Sea, Fishing

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• Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fashion, Writing, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Judging, Feelings

  Samuel Johnson (1961). “The critical opinions of Samuel Johnson”

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• It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Pride, Artist, Color

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.

  Bernadette Peters

  Thinking, Years, Way

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• Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Infinite, Dunces

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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• Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Atheism, Language, Influence

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• I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list.

  Todd Blackledge

  Night, Lsu, Games

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• I have a little tradition that humbles me as a man that lets me know I'm a part of the field and a part of the game, and it's the very bottom as well as the very top. Yeah, it's going to be all over the internet. You know what? You should've seen some games before this. I'll tell you one thing, the grass at Tiger Stadium tastes best.

  Les Miles

  Men, Lsu, Games

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• It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Character, Common, Traits

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• Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Creativity, Creative, Energy

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• He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Errors, Long

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.74

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• There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
  [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Imagination, Als, Fearful

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