Bernard Berenson Quotes

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Bernard Berenson

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• Appetite

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• My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Parents
  • Style
  • Inspired

• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Heart
  • Doctor
  • Satisfied

• I don't have lavish taste.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Taste
  • Lavish

• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Back
  • Well
  • Satisfied

• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Myself
  • Learned
  • Appetite

• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • See
  • Taste

• I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Satisfied

• I'm never satisfied.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Never
  • Satisfied

• There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Bad
  • Taste
  • Italy

• There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Kind
  • Taste
  • Filmmaking

• As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Daughter
  • Satisfied

• I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Taste
  • Wants
  • Brands

• I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Music
  • Taste
  • Codfish

• My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Cutting

• One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • Want
  • Perfect

• My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Good
  • She
  • Wife

• Our productivity growth has not been that great over the past few years. Now we've got this investment appetite and that could really start moving us up productivity-wise. The downside is you don't need as many jobs in the sector as you did before.

  

  Peter Hall
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Appetite

• I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Taste

• Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.

  

  William George Jordan
  • Character
  • Appetite
  • Digestion

• The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Blood

• I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to call someone. That's like being called a Mexican.

  

  Bonnie McFarlane
  • Mexican
  • Racist
  • Harsh

• Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Taste
  • Satisfied
  • Appetite