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 -
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden -
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 -
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
Vera Wang -
I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
Irina Shayk -
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 -
I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
Edvard Grieg -
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson -
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.
Courtney Love -
My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
Boris Karloff
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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 -
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
John Stuart Mill -
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
William Hazlitt -
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt -
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 -
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
Honore de Balzac
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
Laura Hillenbrand -
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.
Nicole Kidman -
Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.
Francine Rivers -
I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
Carrie Fisher