Quotes About Taste

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.

The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

The first time I tried organic wheat bread, I thought I was chewing on roofing material

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

Pero mi hipocresía era menos grosera de lo que pensaban: todo placer regido por el gusto me parecía casto.

The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labors!

The ham tastes like an old handbag.

How sweet it is to let God purge our souls of ego and bitterness, and to have a little taste of heaven here on earth.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into it so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Connoisseurs of paintings were curiously indifferent about color itself, and were seldom possessed by it. Rather, they possessed it. And they seemed to be easily seated. They were like the gourmets, who had to build castles of their food before they could eat it. They confused beauty and knowledge, passion and expertise.

Hoheit, do you know why crows are black? No, I never thought of it. They taste lousy, and they're black as a sure sign to predators that they're crows, who will taste lousy. Why aren't they yellow? They live in cold climates, and black absorbs heat. They don't need camouflage, so they can take advantage of the way their color soaks up the sunlight. Why do you ask me these questions? Klodwig demanded. To remind you, Hoheit, not to argue with nature.