Quotes About Taste

It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

The benefit you derive from your food does not depend so much on the quantity eaten, as on its thorough digestion, nor the gratification of the taste so much on the amount of food swallowed as on the length of time it remains in the mouth.-- R.

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

India had sent Adelaide—whose taste was impeachable—back to London to choose furniture from Thomas Sheraton's and Jean-Henri Reisener's showrooms.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

Happiness is meant to be an acquired taste. In other words, happiness ought to be an attitude or lifestyle which you have to imbibe and portray over and over again. For, happiness is worth imbibing and portraying for life, unlike sadness which is ever uncalled for. -Emeasoba George

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

matter that the robe was pure silk and had cost a fortune, their daughter wouldn't be caught dead in anything

It's better to live with a few things than with those that don't express your taste or that deliver outdated, inappropriate or even bitter memories that you should leave behind.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

I am in general susceptible to style.

No man is so rich as to buy every thing his unrestrained fancy might prompt him to desire. Hounds and horses, pictures and statues and buildings, will exhaust any fortune. There is hardly any one taste so simple or innocent, but what a man might spend his whole estate in it, if he were resolved to gratify it to the utmost. A nobleman may just as easily ruin himself by extravagance as a private man, and indeed many do so.

I think my music is like anchovies–some people like it, some people get nauseous.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"     —Rita Rudner Long

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

Reality television is to television what marble and gold are to real estate. The point is to dispense with the idea of taste. It's all id. The more unrestrained the better. We all know that 'reality' in reality television is not real. That anybody who would participate in reality television is a fake. But pretending otherwise makes them real.

I'm realizing I'm not hip enough to know for sure what would be considered pop-culture.

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

I really like milk. I'm a dairy queen.

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!