Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
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I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
Vera Wang
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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
Irina Shayk
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster
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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
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I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
Edvard Grieg
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.
Courtney Love
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My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
Boris Karloff
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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Ernest Hemingway
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I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
Vivienne Westwood
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
John Stuart Mill
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
William Shenstone
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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.
Blaise Pascal
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
George Bernard Shaw
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Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
S. J. Rozan
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My grandchildren just know me now as Mr. Potato Head.
Don Rickles
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The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
Odilon Redon
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I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
Carrie Fisher