Taste Quotes

• Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Fashion
  • Rich
  • Poor

• One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Quality
  • Taste
  • Develop

• Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Intellectual
  • Happened
  • Difficulty

• Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

  

  Cathleen Schine
  • Letters
  • Flames
  • Restraint

• I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Smell

• Taste is so much more important than fashion.

  

  Hattie Carnegie
  • Fashion
  • Taste

• A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Certain
  • Race
  • Portions

• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Quality
  • Television
  • Reflection

• Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Art
  • Taste

• He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Memories
  • Sweet
  • Tears

• I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Character

• Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.

  

  Caryl Phillips
  • Home
  • Eye
  • Streets

• If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Practice
  • Teaching
  • Pot

• I just find it annoying that in these sequences of the fight scenes, traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Audience
  • Reflects
  • Fight Scenes

• Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

  

  Shawn Amos
  • Taste

• Taste goodness before you recommend it.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Taste
  • Goodness

• When you first get started, you're the only one with a vision. When you become creative and use your imagination, pretty soon the things you imagined, you can get done. If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I'm talking about, you'd rather do that than eat. You couldn't get enough of it. You'll hunger for it the rest of your life.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Freedom
  • Taste

• I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Truth
  • Taste
  • Don't Know

• do not like this taste for adventure you have developed, sister.” “I am afraid I cannot guarantee I shall be rid of it anytime soon.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Adventure
  • Taste
  • Guarantees

• Every generation tailors history to its taste.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • History
  • Generation
  • Taste

• I'm always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Memories
  • Taste
  • Excitement

• And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Home
  • Father
  • Taste

• The most important thing in art is taste.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Taste

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