Quotes About Tastes

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

Happiness is promoted by associations of persons with similar tastes and similar opinions.

There are not more than five cardinal tastes (sour, acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

One more thing. She wears Patchouli. Every tart in Montmartre wears it. Place Pigalle reeks of it. If she wants to carry out her pose as an aristocrat, she ought to refine her tastes.

I wonder if I'll ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything... are all my occasional romances to fall to the ground after a month or so, like the jacaranda flowers?

The practice of sympathy may mean the cultivation of similar tastes, though that will almost naturally follow from the fellowship. But to cultivate similar tastes does not imply either absorption of one of the partners, or the identity of both. Rather, part of the charm of the intercourse lies in the difference, which exists in the midst of agreement.

My mom, who left Iran in 1976, steeped us in the smells, tastes, and traditions of Persian cuisine.

Mrs Smiling's character was firm and her tastes civilized. Her method of dealing with wayward human nature when it insisted on obtruding its grossness upon her scheme of life was short and effective; she pretended things were not so: and usually, after a time, they were not. Christian Science is perhaps a larger organization, but seldom so successful.

Each of the tastes has been selected by evolution for its survival value. Either it guides us toward nutrients we need to survive, or it steers us away from ingesting things that might endanger us.

I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

The punk credo was to stand up for your own beliefs and tastes, not bow down to yet another new set of rules. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, indeed.

I love reading another reader's list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

It's never too early for tea," Andrew declared. "Not if your cook has been making shortbread." He turned to George. "I don't know what she puts in it, but it's divine." "Butter," Billie said absently. "Quite a lot of it." Andrew cocked his head to the side. "Well, that makes sense. Everything tastes better with quite a lot of butter.

They fail to see the extent to which America is "negrified" not only racially and demographically, but above all in its civilization, in the behavior, and tastes of Americans, even when there has been no actual mixing with negro blood.

an essay in the Human Rights Reader, Rorty suggested that the basis for human rights is not rationality or moral law but "what Baier calls 'a progress of sentiments.'…It is the result of what I have been calling 'sentimental education.'"17 So the basis for morality, in Rorty's view, is "sentiment." We are back to preferences and tastes. But whose sentiments? Rorty's? A Nazi's? Or someone else's?

The range and diversity of...places in England with character or charm is often overlooked. A bicycle more than anything else helps one both to find and to appreciate them: they and it have quiet tastes in common. And a bicycle leaves no smell, oil-drip, weakened fabric or frightened pedestrian in its wake.

Los gustos humanos son tan variados como las huellas dactilares —dijo Sagaz—. A nadie le gusta todo, a todos les desagrada algo, alguien ama algo que tú odias... pero al menos, que te odien es mejor que nada.

New tastes are like new ideas ... the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

upon, having—as I at least supposed—a life of his own and tastes and habits which had long since diverted him from the maternal side.  If he did

I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt.

I'm eclectic in my tastes because of my trauma. It's madness. It's almost ADHD.

I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.