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Quotes About Taste

It came in three speeds: the jars with green lids were "mild," whereas pink meant "hot." The red-lidded jars were so-called "firecracker style." The latter was not a big hit with the kids.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
up and got out the 'greedients. 'Greedients is the stuff you mix together. Like the bowl. And the spoon. And the cereal. And the milk. Except for the milk carton was very too heavy for me. And so I just got the orange juice, instead. I put my bowl of cereal on the floor. Then I poured orange juice to the tippy-top of it. I took a giant bite. "Yum," I said. "This is the most delicious breakfast I ever ate. Except for it doesn't actually taste that good.
~ Barbara Park
Medicine isn't supposed to taste good—that's what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better.
~ Barry Eisler
smell the sherry
~ Barry Eisler
Afterglow. Gin, absinthe, Amaro, ginger, lemon, orange, and nutmeg.
~ Barry Eisler
But accurate insights might have helped me. Medicine isn't supposed to taste good—that's what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better.
~ Barry Eisler
There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?
~ Stephen King
Incredibly, there are people—smart people—who think a prim disdain for drama is somehow a sign of "good taste." It is more often the reverse: a lamentable insensitivity to the essence of the art, a failure to "get it" on the most essential level. It is more often a sign not of good taste but of artistic insecurity. Not knowing how far to go, the writer goes nowhere. Lifelessness is not a form of elegance you should pursue.
~ Stephen Koch
I don't mean to be a snob about anyone else's taste or to suggest that my own is worth bragging about. I don't really have taste; I have reactions to other people's. I have opinions.
~ Stephen McCauley
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?
~ Steve Kaplan
I'VE picked the Golden Delicious from
~ Steve Martini
the comfort of the infinite and never lost his taste for the poetic
~ Steven Naifeh
hextable n. The record you find in someone else's collection which instantly tells you you could never go out with them.
~ Steven Pinker
Certainly the taste for cruelty clashes with the values of a cooperative society: it must be harder to work with your neighbors if you think they might enjoy seeing you disemboweled.
~ Steven Pinker
Meat tastes good, and eating it makes people happy.
~ Steven Pinker
The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
~ William Shakespeare
I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.
~ Devon Werkheiser
I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
~ Eric Bristow
I love food, I love eating.
~ Robin Gibb
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
~ Henry Fielding
Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.
~ Lyle Lovett
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
~ Mignon McLaughlin