Quotes About Taste

Tariq said, "You never answered my question." "Which question was that?" "Do you like fado music?" "I suppose it's an acquired taste." He smiled and added, "Like Lisbon itself. For some reason it reminds me of home." "Fado is a music devoted to suffering and pain. That's why it reminds you of home." "I suppose you're right.

I don't need to try it. I tried it once, and I liked it very much. - Chiara

Tasting scotch was an intense experience; it didn't have the lovely layering of wines

When I asked if she read poetry anymore, she said no. she had lost her taste for it. That was how she said it, lost her taste. I asked how that could happen, and she said she agreed with Plato, or at least Plato as summarized for her: that there was something dishonest about it and that he was right to want to banish the poets. What she mean't, she told me, was that the only reality was life, real life, and that these beautiful versions were lies and she no longer had patience for it.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

I know firsthand that once you've tasted the reality of God—not hype or excitement, but the great filling of His glory through your veins—your spiritual taste buds are simply ruined for anything counterfeit. There

She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear …" "And in boyfriends," I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

IT'S GOING TO GET SALT-AND-PEPPERED! AND … KETCHUP'D!!!

It's simple and delicious. So quit being such a snob.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

Taste every time you cook, and take nothing for granted--not even your own palate, for it can change. Mine has.... Since doing time on a salt-free diet, I approach a plain baked potato reverently. Maybe I've been missing the truth--the nutty, delicate earthiness of a perfect baked potato. Salt only masks it. In a fancy mood, I heighten it with caviar; in a plain mood, I just give it several grinds of fresh black pepper.

The omelette tasted like flannel.

Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings.

Oh, man," he mumbled with a full mouth. "At least the food is good.

If he threw it all up, he'd just enjoy eating all over again. Hopefully a fresh batch.

How can you enjoy ice cream if you never eat broccoli?

The burst of flavour and juice was a glorious thing. Moaning, he attacked the rest of it and had eaten down to its stumpy core

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell.