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Quotes About Taste

I nibbled on the edge—it tasted like a piece of bologna that had met a violent death and been embalmed.
~ Sam Torode
The flesh of animals who feed excursively, is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up. May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks?
~ Samuel Johnson
Women must not encourage Fops and Fools. They must encourage Men of Sense only. And it is well said. But what will they do, if their lot be cast only among Foplings? If the Men of Sense do not offer themselves? And pray, may I not ask, if the taste of the age, among the men, is not Dress, Equipage, and Foppery? Is the cultivation of the mind any part of their study? The men, in short, are sunk, my dear; and the women but barely swim.
~ Samuel Richardson
Missouri Ann ate her bit of orange slowly. Tastes like summer, she said.
~ Sandra Dallas
Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.
~ Sandra Newman
Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous- Keeping the Moon
~ Sarah Dessen
I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.
~ Sarah Dessen
I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
~ Sarah Kay
But I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar: it can crumble so easily, but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
~ Sarah Kay
We find our way to the marble kitchen, open the fancy silver fridge, and serve ourselves a heaping plate of coleslaw and chicken fingers. "Mmm," I say. Prince makes sloppy eating sounds. "Delicious," says Jonah. He smiles at Frederic. "Tastes just like frog legs." I laugh so hard I snort coleslaw out of my nose.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
whole can of it last night. I think he likes it almost as much as
~ Sarah Weeks
His taste in clothes was horrible, but he didn't buy cheap things. He wore corduroy or velvet shirts from Clyde's, painted neckties, striped socks.
~ Saul Bellow
The best way to know a city is to eat it.
~ Scott Westerfeld
But I read so seldom, that I prefer books suited exactly to my taste. And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life, - and the friends who are about me, whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence,- which, without being absolutely paradise, is, on the whole, a source of indescribable happiness.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
AUTHOR: Who writes anything good these days, Or reads with moderate intelligence! And what the dear young folk all praise, [4090] I've never seen such stupid nonsense.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
La vita è troppo breve per bere vini mediocri
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our dependence on smell is revealed every time we have a cold; once the nose becomes stuffed up, we lose the capacity to taste anything, simply because we cannot smell it.
~ John A. McDougall
To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.
~ John Berger
Yet when an image is presented as a work of art, the way people look at it is affected by a whole series of learnt assumptions about art. Assumptions concerning: Beauty Truth Genius Civilization Form Status Taste, etc.
~ John Berger
Taste the rainbow.
~ John Bowen
It is foolish to think that you can withdraw from the Exchange after you have tasted the sweetness of the honey.
~ John Brooks
No one, indeed, will voluntarily and willingly devote himself to the service of God unless he has previously tasted his paternal love, and been thereby allured to love and reverence Him.
~ John Calvin
the faith of   the gospel is called the knowledge of God's grace; for no one has ever   tasted of the gospel but the man that knew himself to be reconciled to   God, and took hold of the salvation that is held forth in Christ.   
~ John Calvin
Indeed, Scripture exhibits fully as clear evidence of its own truth5 as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things do of their taste.
~ John Calvin