Taste Quotes - Page 38

• I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

  Leif Garrett

  Crazy, Stupid, Charity

  "Leif Garrett to Justin Bieber: 'Don't believe your own publicity'". Interview with Diana Falzone, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2013.

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• Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before.

  William J. Clinton

  School, Lunch, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

  Angel Deradoorian

  Song, Art, Different

  "Angel Deradoorian’s Cleaner Side". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.

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• You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

  Ashley Greene

  Want, Littles, Comedy

  "Ashley Greene Talks Shooting in Berlin, Her Favorite Horror Films, and Her Pro-Active Character on the Set of THE APPARITION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2012.

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• A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.

  Anuj

  Men, Networking, Substance

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• Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Soul, Bitterness, Bland

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either.

  Dominique Browning

  Bookstores, Algorithms, Matter

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• The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Drinking, People, Poison

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• Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Condiments, Senses, Conditions

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.215, Rowman & Littlefield

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• but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few

  Laird Barron

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wish, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• What if the Church and the State
  Are the mob that howls at the door!
  Wine shall run thick to the end,
  Bread taste sour.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Wine, Government

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.80, Hayes Barton Press

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• Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

  John Jakes

  Giving Up, Editors, Persistent

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• Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

  Josh Klinghoffer

  Space, People, Trying

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• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

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• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cousin, Writing, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Apology, Sick

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• Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Beauty, Flower, Maturity

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• A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Power, Political, Politics

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• It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Views, Mind, Body

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• A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Light, Clothes

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Judgment, Good Taste

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• Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Men, Thinking

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• A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Democracy, Republic, Pleasure

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• Look not thou on beauty's charming;
  Sit thou still when kings are arming;
  Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
  Speak not when the people listens

  Walter Scott

  Kings, Wine, People

  Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Psychology Press

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