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Quotes About Distaste

wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.
~ Ayn Rand
If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.
~ Eva Hoffman
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't only law. Medical schools often have committees to evaluate cases and mitigating factors but are generally reluctant to admit ex-inmates.
~ Mary Pilon
All that the YMCA's horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needs to climb in and out of the bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
~ H.L. Mencken
I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.
~ Keith Jarrett
One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.
~ Rose Macaulay
People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees
~ Kishore Kumar
is plain yuck.
~ Simone Elkeles
His distaste was palpable. Although he cultivated ideas that embraced the perverse and forbidden, Stephen was squeamish, and his adventures were strictly of the fashionable, literary sort.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I don't claim to have taste , but of my distaste I am very sure .
~ Jules Renard
I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.
~ Billy Collins
a desgraça de um gosto mediano é ainda pior do que a desgraça de não ter gosto nenhum
~ Boris Pasternak
I seem to be allergic to diligence
~ Junot Diaz
Bubda likes to be alone. Other people are a pain. You're other people, Seth. Better than some. Maybe better than most. But no people is best.
~ Brandon Mull
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
~ David Ansen
Those two make my mouth taste like throw up.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
She pulled a face.
~ Karen Miller
Doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs, tinkers, tailors, soldiers, spies - everyone was busier and more important than a mere homicide investigator. People did so hate to be bothered by sordid stuff like crime.
~ Kate Flora
Everything that he saw and heard about the city filled him with distaste, yet Valraven seemed to embrace it.
~ Storm Constantine
As Genji mused about the transitory nature of life, intense feelings of weariness and distaste for the world overwhelmed him. How much longer must he go on living in it now that he had been left behind?
~ Murasaki Shikibu
Cyprian was captivated by eyes, but only by those that looked away, with either indifference or active distaste. It was not enough for her to return his gaze. She must then direct her own to other matters. It sent him into a swoon. It got him through that day and part of the next sometimes.
~ Thomas Pynchon
'Bigg Boss' is not my zone of entertainment.
~ Nikita Dutta
When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing.
~ David Longstreth
These are a few of his least favorite things.
~ Neal Shusterman