Tasting Quotes - Page 6

• I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Girl, Guy, Kitchen

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

  William Shatner

  Mean, Appreciate, Listening

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• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  E. B. White

  Time, Nature, Fall

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• The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Men, Boys, Interesting

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.170, Penguin

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• Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Two, Reactions

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• The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Kissing, Hug

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.206, Bantam

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• He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cute, Cat, Hands

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.62, Penguin

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• Heat skittered through her belly, then directly south. “Sawyer.” In answer, he brought his head up and kissed her. Deep, hungry, tasting her in a purposely slow, thorough manner before pulling back to once again look into her eyes. Oh, God. “Sawyer, what are we doing?” she whispered. He shook his head. “No f#cking clue.

  Jill Shalvis

  Eye, Looks, Answers

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels”, p.443, Hachette UK

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• When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

  Akshay Kumar

  Relief, Taste, Huge

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• Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

  Sandra Dallas

  Summer, Winter, Blue

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Life is too short to drink bad wine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life Is Too Short, Wine, Vineyards

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• Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

  Alain Ducasse

  Memories, Mistake, Memorable

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• When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Chocolate, Want, Eating

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• Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Water, Unseen, Doe

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• And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.

  Toni Morrison

  Song, Children, Flirting

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• American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.

  R. W. Apple

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Lust

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• Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Self, Meditation

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• A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.

  Walt Whitman

  Song, Cities, Smell

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.590, NYU Press

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• If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Artist, Ideas, Effort

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• Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.

  Peter Stafford

  Sweet, Cactus, Peyote

  Peter Stafford (2013). “Psychedelics Encyclopedia”, p.133, Ronin Publishing

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• It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting medicine when we are sick, or going to the dentist. Somebody needs to tell us that the sunrise is also God's will. There is the time of harvest, the harvest which will provide food and clothes for us, without which life could not be sustained on earth. God ordered the seasons-they are his will. In fact, the good things in life far outweigh the bad. There are more sunrises than cyclones.

  Charles L. Allen

  God, Things In Life, Medicine

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• Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Death, Disappointment, Mean

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• We are the mirror as well as the face in it.
  We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.
  We are pain and what cures pain both.
  We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Pain, Mirrors

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• We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Taste

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