Quotes About Taste

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

I had to stop periodically to savor not only my soup but the marrow of my memories.

The beer had the color and taste of baby's pee, but we followed our usual routine and drank with joyless discipline until we both passed out.

To avoid talking, we both smoked incessantly and listened to a greatest hits tape of Johnny Hallyday, the sonic equivalent of Ricard Pastis, a taste the rest of the world could not acquire.

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Each man is led by his own liking.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

but it also had an odd metallic tang to it that I instantly recognized from when I was Buddy and had a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn't get rid of. The bald man probably had the same taste in his mouth, because it was on his breath.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Poetry is the only art people haven't yet learnt to consume like soup.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

Hey, Dad, you've got to taste what we just did. It's actually good. (Omari) That is good. What did you two do? (Devyn) No idea. We just added spices until it didn't suck anymore. (Omari)

I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.