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Quotes About Taste

The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The sky grew darker, and the light abandoned the daytime, so that we found ourselves always moving in a timeless murk, the only way to discern the hour the taste of sour burps, toothpaste in the morning, redolent in the afternoon of the jellied beef of school cafetetria meals
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
skull dust kicked up by a bone saw is a taste that lingers in the mouth very unpleasantly for hours
~ Jeffrey Thomas
The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.
~ Jen Lancaster
This toffee tastes like war or Lucifer's tears. This toffee is a molten pool of broken Christmas promises. If sadness had a flavor, it would be the contents of the Pyrex.
~ Jen Lancaster
It had looked so simple when she'd made it, but when he cut into it and tasted it, he realized he'd missed some stuff while he'd been making coffee. There were herbs in there or spices or something, and the egg was light- Fluffy , he thought- and the pepper still had crunch to it but was buttery, too.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Well, nobody ever accused you of having taste , Brenda said, Bless your heart. Taylor, Agnes said. You can go now. You and the whore you rode in on. Bless her heart. Brenda exhaled through her teeth.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Shane looked around the rec room, trying not to linger on the Venus de Mildew and thought, The Fortunato taste in decorating. Probably causes genetic damage. Which would explain a lot about the family.
~ Jennifer Crusie
the less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
~ Jerry Garcia
Freezing kills the flavor.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.
~ Jess Walter
Why do washing machines eat socks? Do they taste good? Should I eat socks?
~ Jessica Park
Green eggs and ham
~ Jessica Park
I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.
~ Joshua Reynolds
I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
~ Luke Ford
I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.
~ Seth Rogen
In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
~ Ted Allen
Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.
~ Liev Schreiber
I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.
~ Jake Tapper
A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.
~ Clint Eastwood
I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.
~ George Harrison