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Quotes About Taste

We all like chicken
~ Malcolm X
There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Success is the sweetest thing to taste, the bitterest thing to lose, and the hardest thing to earn.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Devi made a ginger, apricot, and mint chutney, along with a good amount of chipotle chili peppers found in a bottle, hidden deep down in Saroj's everything-is-in-there pantry. The end result was a fiery, smoky, tangy concoction that beat the pants off of Saroj's mint chutney.
~ Amulya Malladi
I take a few quick sips. This is really good. And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. This is from Grand Auntie, my mother explains. She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound. You're kidding. I take another sip. It tastes even better.
~ Amy Tan
If you want to take pictures of Chinese food, you have to taste real Chinese food. The flavors soak into your tongue, go into your stomach. The stomach is where your true feelings are. And if you take photos, these true feelings from your stomach can come out, so that everyone can taste the food just by looking at your pictures.
~ Amy Tan
Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
~ Anais Nin
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
~ Anais Nin
It has taken years to find the answer, but I go back to that quote by Mary Gordon: "Being fatherless leaves a woman with a taste for the fanatical . . . a fatherless girl can be satisfied only with the heroic, the desperate, the extreme.
~ Anderson Cooper
They ate in religious silence, the corners of their mouths smeared with ricotta cream. Which, the rules say, must be removed with a slow, circular movement of the tongue.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Leggera, la cena, ma tutto cucinato con quel tocco che il Signore rarissimamente concede agli Eletti. Montalbano non ringraziò la moglie del questore, si limitò a taliarla con gli occhi di un cane randagio al quale viene fatta una carezza.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Hemos llegado a una situación en la que el público prefiere cualquier basura comercial a Fresas salvajes de Bergman o a El eclipse de Antonioni
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
All the kids loved lunchtime. But the awful part of lunch was the eating part - school food.
~ Andrew Clements
One's skill is never complete, one's knowledge is forever lacking, one's taste is invariably altered, one's opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.
~ Andrew Loomis
and they were having some new kind of beer that tasted like aspirin and smelled like magnolias and cost more than a hamburger.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Maybe he never did. Less knows so well the pleasures of youth—danger, excitement, losing oneself in a dark club with a pill, a shot, a stranger's mouth—and, with Robert and his friends, the pleasures of age—comfort and ease, beauty and taste, old friends and old stories and wine, whiskey, sunsets over
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Mescal turns out to be a drink that tastes as if someone has put their cigarette out in it. You drink it, he is informed, with an orange slice that has been coated in toasted worms.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Mescal turns out to be a drink that tastes as if someone has put their cigarette out in it.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Mescal turns out to be a drink that tastes as if someone has put their cigarette out in it. You drink it, he is informed, with an orange slice that has been coated in toasted worms. "You are kidding me," Less says, but they are not kidding him.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
~ Andy Warhol
Plays by William Shakespeare), "Books I Love" (here she placed Siddhartha, The Painted Bird, On the Road), "Books We Don't Understand Why People Like" (and here she put Peyton Place and Love Story and Hawaii). It
~ Ann Hood
Tofu and sprouts just taste better to me than potato chips and cupcakes.
~ Ann M. Martin