Quotes About Tastes

You hear this a lot in America, especially when you're complaining about televisions, or loud music, or, more common still, television and loud music together in the same room. "People like it." "Yes," I always want to say, "but they're the wrong people.

Everyone has different tastes and palates. Most of the time I put a smile on people's faces but sometimes you get people who have a different view and you take that on board and see what you can make of it.

world is sensation. We drift in an ocean of sensory stimuli: motion, color, texture, shape, heat, cold, natural symphonies of sound, an infinite number of scents, tastes beyond the human ability to catalogue. Nothing but sensation endures. Living things all die. Great cities do not last.

She never annoyed the bookstore customers and never let on that some of them had literary tastes she found unfortunate.

A friend of mine who's dieting has a Post-it on her refrigerator door on which she's written, "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." You may discover that none of your drivel tastes as good as vacancy feels.

People like our stuff, some people hate it, but that's like anything, right? Some people love donuts, some people are allergic to 'em.

But he would continuously change them around, according to his studies and tastes of the moment, for he considered his books as rather like birds and it saddened him to see them caged or still.

James believed that scientific inquiry, like any other form of inquiry, is an activity inspired and informed by our tastes, values, and hopes. But this does not, in his view, confer any special authority on the conclusions it reaches. On the contrary: it obligates us to regard those conclusions as provisional and partial, since it was for provisional and partial reasons that we undertook to find them.

Piety and pity were a little to close to each other for my tastes.

He lifted his pint and took a long gulp and I watched his face grimace a little as he tried to swallow. His eyes closed briefly as he fought the urge to spit it back up. 'Christ, that tastes good,' he said with all the credibility of a Parisian complimenting a meal in Central London. 'I needed that.

Deference refers to the abuser's entitlement to have his tastes and opinions treated as edicts.

She not only loves her children, she respects them. They have wills, tastes, thoughts, judgments of their own, and this is as she wishes it to be. She distinguishes clearly between counsel and command: command must be obeyed; counsel may be disregarded without rebuke and without loss of favor.

Hipsterism is the purposeful cultivation of uncool and esoteric tastes, and sometimes a shortcut to that aesthetic is to embrace the ugly.

Mother, when was this coffee dripped? Ignatius demanded, flapping into the kitchen again. Just about a hour ago. Why? It certainly tastes brackish.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Interesting." He said it like computer freaks do when they're preoccupied. "What?" Lucas asked. He got a minute of silence, then: "This is an unusual collection," Kidd said. "When people create a porn collection, they almost always collect the pieces separately, because everybody's tastes are different. But here, every file was downloaded all at once. That's unusual.

Emotions play a vital role in our lives. They make life worth living. Like different tastes in food, we also need different emotions to conduct life. But the same emotions, if left uncontrolled, can make life miserable; and even can drive the person to commit suicide.

I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

In a crude analogy, we're advertising Coca-Cola by saying it tastes like turpentine and then growing antagonistic towards those unwilling to take a swig.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

The multitude of options American diners face on restaurant menus isn't just a smart business decision. It deliberately avoids offending all tastes, palates and dietary restrictions.

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.