Quotes About Sensory

Fashion can be an emotional experience.

There is nuance now, subtext, body language, and pheromones.

A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay.

He discovered that lack of sight confuses the ear.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

There is a confusing dual structure in the relationship of the individual to history. Even the sensory certainties of suffering follow a predictable order of physical reactions, so that the undeniable reality of their dizziness, queasiness, or nausea can be regarded with equal plausibility as the hysterical symptoms of a transitional period - a hypochondria of the epoch and not of individual people.

One of the best pairings we've ever done was of Champagnemarinated strawberries with Kyoto Cherry Rose tea.

Tea is much more delicate than wine… The people who respond best to the intricacies of tea are people who enjoy wine. — JAMES LABE, tea sommelier/owner, Teahouse Kuan Yin (Seattle)

I cannot read on a Kindle. I love the physical experience of holding a book, cracking it open, and the process of making the right half weigh less than the left half. I only read hardcover books because I like the resistance and the presence on a bookshelf.

If I'm wearing the wrong clothes I can't think. It sounds so weird but it just has to be the right fabrics and like the right feeling on my body.

I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it's very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It's very strange.

I don't like anything that looks gelatinous - really weirds me out. But when I was a kid, I used to get very, very upset if anything had a kind of chalky texture; like, certain kinds of cottage cheese I know have a weird chalkiness.

I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!

Claggy is often seen as a negative word, yet for me it describes perfectly that full-mouthed feel of a treacle tart of banoffee pie.

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.