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Quotes About Taste

There's no logical reason to put pumpkin in a cup of coffee.
~ Cindy Ott
Newsflash: air quotes are out.
~ Mia King, Good Things, 2006
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.
~ Isaac D'Israeli, "Quotation"
A salad is not a meal. It is a style.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.
~ Grace Metalious
They're trying to understand what space is. That's tough for them. They break distances down into concentrations of chemicals. For them, space is a range of taste intensities.
~ Greg Bear
Life is a thump-ripe melon...it's so sweet and such a mess...
~ Greg Brown
Animals have two functions in today's society, to be delicious and to fit well.
~ Greg Proops
Mm-mm, no, thank you, no, I don't want an enchilaaadaaa. Nor do I want a burr-eye-to. Or a tay-co. Or any other bizarre, unneccessary vowel substitutions.
~ Greg Proops
At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.
~ Gregory Benford
Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
~ Gregory David Roberts
If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
~ Groucho Marx
I also urge you not to wash your hands, face or mouth in between cigarettes. Let the taste and smell stay with you, in your hair, your clothes, hands and face.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Imagine a time before you had ever had chocolate. Going to lectures about chocolate would have been interesting. Reading about chocolate might have increased your appetite. But only tasting chocolate would have really made you understand how good chocolate can be. Only tasting— only experience.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Your taste in film is a quest. You have a palate and you must refine it to match your essence. Never settle and never follow blindly.
~ Guillermo del Toro
los lunes contenía partículas que empujaban a las personas a sospechar que habían sido víctimas de una broma de pésimo gusto. Durante
~ Guillermo Fadanelli
Les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent le goût des lèvres dont elles sortent.
~ Guy de Maupassant
I eyed her and shrugged my shoulders, wondering how on earth she thought this meal was good, but her wafer-thin body gave her away; not once in her life had she eaten good-tasting food.
~ Gwyn Hyman Rubio
What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to find the root of needing to eat. And taste it: work of sweat / sleep.
~ Helene Cixous
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
~ H. L. Mencken
Careless words have a way of leaving a bitter taste on your tongue.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
~ James Joyce
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
~ James Joyce
The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
~ James Joyce