Taste Quotes - Page 8

• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Reflection, Quality, Television

  Rupert Murdoch's address to the Edinburgh Television Festival, 1989.

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• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  Barbra Streisand

  Smell, Avocados, Indescribable

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• We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

  George Sand

  Stupid, Ambition, People

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

  Jay McInerney

  Add, Moderation

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• Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.

  John Lahr

  Uncles, People, Theatre

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• Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

  Peter Kay

  Food, Squares, Sandwiches

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• Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

  Irving Howe

  Atmosphere, Curls, Phrases

  Irving Howe (1995). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harvest Books

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• Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

  Billy Crystal

  Dad, Home, Style

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Gratitude, Simple

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• When we experience moments of ecstasy-in play, in art, in sex-they come not as an exception, an accident, but as a taste of what life is meant to be. . . Ecstasy is an idea, a goal, but it can be the expectation of every day. Those times when we're grounded in our body, pure in our heart, clear in our mind, rooted in our soul, and suffused with the energy, the spirit of life, are our birthright. It's really not that hard to stop and luxuriate in the joy and wonder of being. Children do it all the time. It's a natural human gift that should be at the heart of our lives.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Art, Sex, Children

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• The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the lamest, wimpiest beer in the entire known world. All the other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer, and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sweet, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares to come, be it a man, woman, child, or an animal. If you sit under a tree it will protect you from the weather, from the scorching sun as well as from the pouring rain, and it will give you flowers and fruit. Whether a human being enjoys them or a bird tastes of them matters little to the tree; its produce is there for anyone who comes and takes it.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Children, Flower, Rain

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• I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Country, Thinking, Islands

  "What's in your basket, Gael García Bernal?" by Morwenna Ferrier and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

  Michael Azerrad

  Wisdom, People, Musical

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• It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

  Jane Badler

  Fame, Good Things, Happens

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• I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

  Les Baxter

  Music, Thinking, People

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• If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

  Olivia Colman

  Reading, People, Choices

  "How Olivia Colman, star of Peep Show and The Iron Lady, made the big time". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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• Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mean, Religion

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

  George Herbert

  Smell, Salt, Bread

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• Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Imagination

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• Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Eye, Animal

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• In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Two, Wheels

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• Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

  Edgar Degas

  Beautiful, Artist, Beautiful Things

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.491, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Men, Years

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• A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

  Herb Caen

  Opportunity, Cities, Ideas

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