Quotes About Taste

Once these girls from outside the city get a little taste of fame, or even, really, acceptance -- well, what they think is acceptance -- it's just impossible.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

certain kinds of music will never be accepted by certain people.

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

Eukko tarjoilee jättiläiselle härän. Kokonaisen härän. Jättiläinen: Hmm. Maistuu ihan tavalliselta härältä minun suussani. Eukko: Jos minä en sitten enää hanki tätä sorttia. Jättiläinen: Ei tavallisessa härässä ole mitään vikaa. Eukko: Niin, mutta pieni vaihtelu silloin tällöin... Jättiläinen: Sinä olet mainoksen uhri.

Use extralight virgin olive oil, which has less flavor and may help control taste cravings.

How did a person decide how much sugar to put in his tea? Well, he had some notion of the ideal sweetness of tea; he sugared his tea until it most closely resembled that ideal.

Umami…is the quasi-secret heart and soul of almost every braise, stew, and soup.

The palate of taste is limited to the five or six primary colors that the tongue can recognize; olfaction, by comparison, is seemingly limitless in the shadings and combinations it can register and archive—and retronasal olfaction can perceive aromas to which even the nose is blind.

The banquet is in the first bite.

Unsalted butter is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

I listen to everything from Lady Gaga to Lady Antebellum. I've got Frank Sinatra. I've got old stuff, new stuff. Iggy Azalea. I've got everything.

I listen to some rap music. I'm from the Bahamas so I like reggae as well. And then I slow it down with a little Frank Sinatra.

I listen to Sinatra way more than a person my age probably should.

Kings of Leon are good but I like anything from Rihanna to Frank Sinatra.

Whenever I'm in Singapore, I definitely have to eat some of the local food.