Bernard Berenson Quotes

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Bernard Berenson

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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
  • Satisfied
  • Well

• 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 found that no food tastes as good as what it feels like to be healthy.

  

  Art Smith
  • Feels
  • Healthy
  • Found

• Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.

  

  Eric Adams Manowar
  • Safety
  • Role
  • Industry

• The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

  

  Steve Blank
  • World
  • Show
  • Run

• At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Birthday
  • Diet
  • Balanced

• If you're racist you're not that clever. I mean, you couldn't even figure out that we're all the f---ing same

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Same
  • Clever
  • Figure

• Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Taste
  • Satisfied
  • Appetite