Quotes About Taste

I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are.

When the windowpanes start to turn from black to gray, my sisters cradle themselves around me, rocking me like the sea until I can taste the salt of our tears

I don't see how sugar could make that cornbread any sweeter than the prints of your hands already have.

I had been addicted to phoenix six years ago, just as I had been addicted to Malkar. I had beaten the addiction and not taken phoenix since. I was horrified by how comforting the taste was. I had known people in Pharaohlight, who had insisted that phoenix was tasteless, but they were wrong. It tasted like tears.

Is this desire? How queer that I, of all people, should not know! But I thought desire smaller, neater; I supposed it bound to its own organs as taste is bound to the mouth, vision to the eye. This feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. It covers me, like skin.

I shivered again, remembering. I put the tip of one finger to my tongue. It tasted sharp—like vinegar, like blood. Like money.

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

A book is the best gift, everything best in me I owe to books, book after book, cherish books-they ennoble and refine one's taste, you look in a book but see gobbledygook, a book is man's best friend, it enhances interiors, exteriors, and fox terriers.

Why stroke the hypersensitive ears of our modern weaklings? Why yield even a single step … to the Tartuffery of words? For us psychologists that would involve a Tartuffery of action … For a psychologist today shows his good taste (others may say his integrity) in this, if in anything, that he resists the shamefully moralized manner of speaking which makes all modern judgments about men and things slimy. We

shower time, steam rising, going on a caffeine binge – it's not the juice that juices me, it's that taste and the rock and roll blaring evil and gorgeous in the morning darkness

Shishito Pepper is a well-known pepper grown in Japan. Only one out of every ten is spicy, but there is no way to know which one is spicy beforehand.

Q: Why don't they have any toilet paper in KFC? A: Because it's finger-licking good!

Q: What's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? A: The taste.

Waiter, waiter! This soup tastes funny. Then why aren't you laughing?

Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

Le parole rimangiate sono amare sulla lingua. (La dimora del sacrilego incantesimo)

Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?"

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.