Tasting Quotes - Page 7

• Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Writing, Gestures

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• Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

  Ray Stevens

  Reality, Purple, Drug

  Song: Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasan, Album: Ray Stevens Box Set

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• Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Hearing, Seeing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.52, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Pain, Sorry

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

  Dan Barber

  Thinking, Would Be, Being The Best

  Source: www.starchefs.com

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• Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra-these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known . . . this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moon, Space, Feelings

  N.Y. Times, 21 July 1969

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• Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spring, Winter, Wish

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• I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is.

  Gail Simmons

  Jobs, Drinking, Work Out

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

  Jill Shalvis

  Jobs, Wine, Dark

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• 'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

  John Green

  Stars, Wine, Monk

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• Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

  Frank Schoonmaker

  Wine, Piano, Smell

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• The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Sleep, Sorrow, Saving

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1857). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.133

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• It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.

  Prince Charles

  Animal, Agriculture, Community

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• Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

  Don Johnson

  Wine, Vineyards, Drinking Champagne

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• I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Stars, Drinking, Eye

  Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company

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• Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

  Adam Young

  Dream, Writing, Color

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• And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taste, Life Is, Disputes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

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  The bed of love, that in the imagination
  Had seemed to be the giver of all peace,
  Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,
  And as soon finished.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Imagination, Bed

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, Bread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

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• The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

  Tim Crane

  Wine, Aesthetic, Understood

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• In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.

  George Andrews

  Strong, Wine, Science

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• As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while it's lasting. Not be constantly worrying about where this step will take you - living in the potential future. Like a good meal. Like a good chef's tasting meal. You don't want to wonder what's next while you're eating the foie gras.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Past, Worry, Important

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving Up, Mean, Medicine

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• He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. “Have you been drinking?” The question was more curious than accusatory. “No,” Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. “I’ve been tasting,” Bast said, emphasizing the word. “Tasting comes before drinking.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Drinking, Eyebrows, Curious

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.14, Penguin

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• average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Thinking, Average

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