Quotes About Tastes

I don't love mixed drinks.

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

I'm a big foodie but not much of a cook. I can cook desi stuff like dal, rice and chicken. I learnt to cook a little bit when I was in college and I used to cook for my friends. I'm not picky about food and eat all types of food, the type of cuisine doesn't matter as long as the food tastes good.

True, he'd had that lesson from that army engineer, but dynamite was still dynamite and it was too much like women for his tastes. Like women, it could be just as docile and nice as a milk cow, and like women, it could blow up in your face for no seeming reason at all.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

It came to me then that God must desire us to use each of our senses, to take delight in the varied tastes and sights and textures of his world. Yet this seemed to go against so many of our preachments against the sumptuary and the carnal.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

If you went on neglecting your own tastes like this, did you, in the end, cease to have any tastes? Cease, in fact, to be a person at all, and become merely a labour-saving gadget around the house?

Sometimes girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, don't get a fair break. Too many of us have been bred to timidity. That is why those who escape must run, not stroll, toward what they desire. They mustn't look back. They mustn't question their own instincts. And they mustn't listen to the naysayers. If they can only follow their own true course, well then, they will be as renowned for their bravery as the greatest men are.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

There are some foods some people just don't like. I just don't like movies. People tell me, don't you care what they've done to your book? I tell them, they haven't done anything to my book. It's right there on the shelf.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

My tastes have always been pretty cheesy. I like Def Leppard. At the same time, my tastes might be pretty universal. I don't know.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

They had met at the table d'hôte of an Eighth Street Delmonico's, and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint studio resulted.

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Sometimes I wondered if my problem was liking too many different kinds of

We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.

Aperitifs, digestifs, and cocktails are remarkably fashion-sensitive and have the same ups and downs in popularity as hemlines.