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Quotes About Taste

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.
~ Susan Griffin
In spite of the terrible pain I was in, I tried to help name the hot sauces. For the allegedly mild one, which tasted like nuclear fall-out, I suggested Hot as Fuck. For the medium one, which tasted like seven lit cigarettes applied firmly to the tongue, I suggested You'd Have to Be an Idiot to Try This, and for the Scorpion sauce, which was so hot I think it gave me permanent nerve damage, I suggested Lawsuit Followed by Complete Financial Collapse. She ignored all my suggestions...
~ Susan Juby
Supper is stew and dumplings and apple brown betty for dessert, and, oh, how wonderful the simple meal tastes.
~ Susan Meissner
The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak.
~ Susan Sontag
Her lips taste like mint from toothpaste or gum, or sometimes like cherries or grapes from her lip gloss. She's soft when I hold her, with curves where my hands rest, and when I touch her I think stupid caveman things like, mine and totally mine —oh yeah, and all mine .
~ Susan Vaught
She give me honey to make my voice sweet, but there never were a sweetness in me. I prefer a taste of rot.
~ Susann Cokal
Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.
~ Suzanne Collins
Me bebo el café mientras caminamos, y descubro que la nata y el azúcar mejoran muchísimo su sabor. Apuro los posos que se han quedado al fondo de la taza y noto que un leve cosquilleo empieza a circularme por las venas.
~ Suzanne Collins
Kate ate the cracker in one bite. "Very tasty," she said. "Excellent," the waiter said solemnly. "Our chef now has a reason to live.
~ Suzanne Harper
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
~ Suzanne McMinn
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
~ Swami Vivekananda
People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that.
~ Matt Lucas
Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
~ Elliott Smith
Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.
~ Jamie Dornan
We're falling into a place where melody is somewhat lacking in music. Everybody feels like, okay, too much melody or too much harmony, and it kind of goes over people's heads; they don't understand it.
~ Ne-Yo
It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
~ Isaac Hanson
My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.
~ Martina McBride
I burn a lot of stuff. My son, bless his heart, eats it anyway. But he makes a face!
~ Sherri Shepherd
I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.
~ Win Butler
Listening to the radio makes you hate every song.
~ Ad-Rock
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
~ Zara Larsson
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
~ Eddie Van Halen
Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!
~ Fergus Henderson
I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
~ Natalie Imbruglia