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I’m like a monk with a taste for hookers.
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I’m not ready for directing yet, you know, maybe when I get my big boy voice; I don’t have that yet, but right now definitely producing for sure.
Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.
There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent.
I love John Waters. There’s stuff in it that’s beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.
I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don’t want to die humiliated or deceived.
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I’m interested in aren’t always mainstream.
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
Exposing yourself to many kinds of art can only lead to amazing things. It helps you learn about your own art, your own taste, what kind of art you want to create for yourself.
The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you’re eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It’s very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.
One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one’s capacity for happiness, but also one’s efficiency.
When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.
My taste changes radically all the time, and I listen to whatever feels good. Another thing is that I’m in the studio so much of the time, and I listen to so much loud, aggressive music for work, that for pleasure, I’ll listen to something else.
I have a certain taste, and I might be like, ‘I like this,’ when other people are like, ‘I can’t wear that.’ And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players‘ abilities are changing.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.
I’ll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it’s very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn’t have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.
First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts – they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.
As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what’s in it.
I’m such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
To taste fully is to live fully.
You can’t prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell – although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I’d say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn’t really looked at either painter‘s work. Taste is a blood sport.
I’ve always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That’s the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself.
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.
It’s not that our family has no taste, it’s just that our family’s taste is inconsistent.
You hit a wall at some stage when you don’t want it so bad, but you don’t know when that’s going to be – as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it’s just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist‘s taste in music, or we’re told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I’d wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don’t know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
‘Bad Taste’ was – it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn’t really have a film industry to break into.
It must be said that it is challenging to balance uncompromising artistic integrity with commercial requirements, but I’ve also come to learn that couture clients are adventurous and particularly unpredictable in their taste.
Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.
The Nazz survived for 18 months – that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience of being in a band. There are good and bad aspects, and I got to taste some of both, and, well, it’s not as much fun as what you see in ‘A Hard Day’s Night,’ let me just say that.
I like giving music-themed gifts. I’ve given a couple of music documentaries to boys. Especially if they don’t have the same taste as me, I try to infiltrate their mind with my favourite bands.
I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there’s taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It’s a form of restriction.
There is no such thing as a bad beer. It’s that some taste better than others.
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust – it has a business model that either works or it doesn’t.
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn’t have good taste in everything.
Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.
Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.
I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it’s the appeal of the simplest of dishes – things you’ve grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory – something that not only affects your taste buds but that you’ve got an emotional attachment to.
Racing is a great sport, but we need people to come along and see that for themselves. Maybe they’re not used to going racing or haven‘t been before, but I think people get a taste for it; they do come back.
Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.
I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it’s Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt – I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people ’cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples’ brands and help them learn a little bit.
Reality is an acquired taste.
It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
I am interested in the idea of ‘taste.’ And by ‘taste,’ I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those ‘ones to tell the grandchildren‘ memories.
I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with. And I’m lucky enough to be in a position where I can wait six months for a project that really interests me.
Money? I lost all taste for it.
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it’s not the same taste.
Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.
In food, it’s really, like, either you’re right, or you’re wrong. You know, people’s taste buds kind of vary, but there’s a technique. Either you do it right, or you don’t.
When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.
I have such an eclectic taste in music. Come to a backyard BBQ at my house, and I will run the gamut from Skynyrd to Sinatra to ’90s grunge, rap, R&B, and classic rock. I have issues. If I had to pick one, I love this country artist named Craig Morgan. His music and his songs are so relatable and tell such vivid stories.
Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
Let’s just say I have expensive taste.
A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short – a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating – and I’d get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
I don’t do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn’t like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I get annoyed when journalists make snide remarks about the annoyingly pretentious shops in the neighbourhood – because I hate them just as much.
With ‘Rage,’ it was a little bit different because this was going to be the public’s first interaction with the ‘Rage’ IP. Early on, right after the tech demo, there was some marked concern internally how much of a bad thing it would be if the game went out and it wasn’t well released and people got a bad taste off it.
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That’s how we’ll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.
A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university‘s offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.
The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask ‘How does it look?’
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
I’ve never dieted in my life; I like food too much. I’m just thoughtful about what I eat, and I’m lucky that I love the taste of vegetables. I’m certainly not ‘actress skinny,’ and I never will be. I’m strong, and my body works great for me.
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It’s not because they taste best.
Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
I don’t have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
Menswear is about subtlety. It’s about good style and good taste.
I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
On some subconscious level, I’ve been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an ‘Airedale,’ not just a ‘dog.’ A taste should not be merely ‘good’ but ‘creamy and sweet’ or ‘sharply salty‘ or ‘buttery on the tongue.’
I don’t have lavish taste.
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.
I was a big fan of Aaliyah’s. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have my own taste in music, I really loved ‘One In A Million.’ That was my jam.
Maybe you could put it out there that I don’t have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I’ve come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.
My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.
Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.
First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed – it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
If I want mashed potatoes, I make cauliflower mashed potatoes, which taste exactly the same. I basically just take all of my cravings and make them low carb.
With food, you’re the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well.
Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or ‘Take That.’ And if you liked ‘East 17’, it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.
Every child’s taste is different. Don’t worry if they’re not reading ‘War and Peace’ at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy.
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
There were few people, perhaps, more passionately fond of travelling, and seeing fresh places, and new scenes, than myself; but now, since, by the grace of God, I have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus, I have lost my taste for these things.
Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It’s like someone with my exact taste in music has handed them all their old vinyl.
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
I pay attention to everything now – the taste of bread, the taste of water.
I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don’t like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the ‘style industry’ because we try to work on taste.
I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there’s certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
The less you do to beautiful food, the better it’s going to taste. You don’t need to mess with it all the time.
I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I’d say that. I’ve figured out that show business isn’t the end-all. I thought I’d never be tired of Hollywood, of the experience, and I have to say there’s some relief. As you get older, your taste changes.
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
The thing is I’m very interested in bad taste, as anyone who’s ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.
I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.
We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.
I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
I think decor says a lot about someone’s social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work – and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.
If the coffee can taste so good with nothing else in it, then that’s a good cup of coffee.
I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.
There’s a stigma about being vegan. Some people say it doesn’t taste great. Don’t knock it until you try it!
Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you’re trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king – and, as we all know, there’s no accounting for Taste.
I love the fact that no one’s ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Marriage? It’s like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards – new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic – symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture – became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.
I’ll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn’t taste like anything much.
It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that’s something you can’t really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there’s hiss there as well.
I don’t really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don’t worry too much about whether it’s supposed to be cool or sophisticated or show that I have good or bad taste or whatever.
I’m not jumping into anything fast. I’m an actor that likes to choose my work and there’s an element of good taste to my work.
I know I’m an acquired taste – I’m anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
Salt’s relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients.
I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.
Exuberance is better than taste.
I don’t have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.
I know some of my parents’ friends think ‘Little Britain‘ is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can’t really say anything negative about that, can you? There’s nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father’s face that day was amazing.
I like the taste of grass-fed meat. It is chewier, I’ll own that… The Argentines make excellent beef that’s grass-fed. They’ve learned how to age it, and they’ve gotten good at it.
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it’s funny. If it’s too dirty or wrong, they won’t laugh. But if it’s a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.
I love judging food by its smell and feel and taste. The healthiest tomato isn’t always the perfect one that’s been covered in pesticides.
The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn’t an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food’s going to taste good. And that – that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
When doing family entertainment, you don’t actually worry about kids. You know what you can’t do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will – if they’re interested in the subject matter – be glad that you did.
I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth – they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn’t feel fair.
Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you’ve directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.
I’m not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter taste. A good steak house will offer different options for preparation, and I would ask them to broil or pan-roast the steak and finish it with butter. It ends up a dark chocolate color and stays very juicy.
People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.
My taste in films doesn’t lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in ‘Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat’ gave me a taste for it.
You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
I could say diamonds are a girl‘s best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.
Salt has a greater impact on flavor than any other ingredient. Learn to use it well, and food will taste good.
If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.
Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it’s the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.
Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it’s taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man‘s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.
Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That’s always how we’re going to get our laughs as comics.
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
I have very poor taste in men, and I married all the wrong men.
I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.
Well, I’m a writer by nature, and I got a little bit – a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
As you eat more healthily, your palate changes – it’s amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, ‘I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.’
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
If you taste something, you’re not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
I used to go with him and I’d sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I’m just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
I came back when I’d had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks.
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters – one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef – tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.
I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn’t been cooked.
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
People think of poetry as a school subject… Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don’t have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
There’s no common taste in this world.
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
I don’t even drink! I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year‘s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze – I’m always the designated driver.
Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.
Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
I don’t mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.
I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs.
I like my coffee sweet and creamy, that’s why I drink Great Taste White.
I don’t mind where I work, it’s really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.
I try to make the songs as good as I can – the way I like it, you know? And I guess my taste sometimes happens to be what other people, particularly radio programmers, like too.
I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there’s all this incredible music that wasn’t widely heard before because it wasn’t in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Things taste less salty when they’re cool.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
For someone in my position, there’s opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn’t be eligible, and I think that’s left a bad taste in a lots of financers’ and studios‘ mouths. Just cause someone’s popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn’t always the right thing.
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved – bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
I have realized that the taste of the viewer can constantly change. So you need to sniff out the need for change. Constantly restructuring your own business to cater to changing taste is imperative.
I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.
‘Under the Poppy‘ is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who’ve been parted by jealousy – and a secret betrayal by Istvan’s sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
Taste is so much more important than fashion.
I really prefer light-eyed models, They photograph more easily. Of course, I come from a light-eyed background, so maybe that influenced my taste.
I’m not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you’re doing is calling millions of people morons.
I do like beer, but lately I’ve started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don’t get the alcohol, so that’s a good alternative also.
The things that have been most popular with people have always been a total surprise, and so I’ve never felt like I could really truthfully predict public taste, so why bother?
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom’s taste a bit more.
A lot of my friends hate my music. I have weird taste.
When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
I have the world’s worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I’m beyond that.
I just don’t understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I’m vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot – and it’s not that I believe my taste is superior, I just can not believe that other people don’t care.
I’ve never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It’s my comfort food. It’s amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better.
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
I’d like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with – dogs and cats, for example – from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.
My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that’s what I do every day.
Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Chilli ice cream doesn’t taste bad. But I wouldn’t eat it again.
I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn’t make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.
Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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.
It’s always great to have things from France at a wedding. It’s symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
That’s the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
I don’t believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I’ve never seen that before. There’s something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.
I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.
I don’t pay attention to celebrities. I don’t photograph them. They don’t dress so… interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste.
I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it’s just a question of taste.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
To me, great advertising can make food taste better, can make your car run smoother. It can change your perception of something. Is it wrong to change your perception about something? Of course not. I’m not lying; I’m just saying, ‘This one’s more fun, this one’s more exciting.’
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.
It’s not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don’t want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.
Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
Once you get a taste of success, it’s a hard thing to turn down.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing.
A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life’s pleasures – a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
The taste of the times is, unhappily, to give to children something of book-learning, with a view of placing them to live, in some way or other, upon the labour of other people.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Like a lot of snackers, I recognized that snacking is an indulgence and is all about taste.
Everybody has their own taste, and I allow for that, but personally, I don’t like a striped tie on a striped shirt. I don’t like brown shoes with a blue suit. Cordovan maybe, but not brown.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
With some cider you can literally taste the spirituality in it.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
I’ve been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.
My stylist has really great taste – Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as I’ve gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, it’s easier to say, ‘I like that’ or ‘I don’t like that,’ but it’s nothing I would ever, you know, design.
Taste is the feminine of genius.
There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
I love working with directors who have good taste. It’s incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
My greatest weakness is… food. If it looks like it’s going to taste nice, it goes in my face – simple as that.
I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation and uniformity are paramount; I’m more interested in taste. I don’t mind if one bun is smaller than the others, or if there’s a little pastry cracking, though I don’t want a soggy bottom.
Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I’m not in the taste of the men there at all.
I’m wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, ‘I am my musical taste.’ I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that’s a thing that people romanticize: ‘Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.’
Without sulfites, wine may smell and taste funky or re-ferment in the bottle. Many distributors and shop owners are consequently reluctant to stock wines made without sulfites.
Any sauce whatsoever should be smooth, light (without being liquid), glossy to the eye, and decided in taste. When these conditions are fulfilled, it is always easy to digest, even for tired stomachs.
I don’t like junk food, just because I don’t like the taste of it, but I don’t go to the gym – ever.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It’s simply a question of taste.
My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!
I’m willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
I don’t like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
Being happy is a matter of personal taste.
I’m always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.
Deciding taste is egotistical, but that’s how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, ‘I don’t want to sell that.’
We’re not big on taste. And actually, if you don’t pander to undue sensitivities, then it ends up usually not being much of a problem.
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you’re bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don’t have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.
There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there’s a diversity of taste for food. I don’t label or characterize Jews in any way.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
I’m no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn’t taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It’s not a way to live.
Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20’s, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one’s imagination.
I don’t have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool – and have good taste, obviously.
You think about some of the most memorable meals you’ve ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
I’m always fetishizing the French woman and French taste and style. My assistant will make fun of me because every time we’re picking the direction of a collection, I say the same thing: ‘I want it to be really French.’
I’m half Moroccan and half Indian so I have quite an adventurous taste in food.
I don’t drink coffee. I’ve never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That’s something you probably don’t know about me. I’ve hated the taste since I was a kid.
As a businessman, my dharma is to cater to every taste of my viewer.
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don’t have the discipline to write what we would term as critique – it’s really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That’s my view.
I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia. I can taste, and always have tasted, words. I remember when I was a kid and learning to read I mentioned to my mom that certain words I was learning tasted certain ways, thinking everyone was like that, and didn’t understand why she didn’t get what I was saying.
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue’s receptors report to the brain.
What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
When I’m being funny, I try not to offend. I don’t think much of what I’ve done has been in really ghastly taste. I don’t think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.
When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you’re faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.
If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I’ll fire up my season 2 DVD of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210.’
When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).
My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.
We have lost the taste for the real.
This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.
It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.
I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone’s taste.
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person’s taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder at the Vicarage.’ I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I’m happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
I guess I’m a real fan of older music, and that’s what shaped my taste and the way I sing.
The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.
I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else’s taste.
My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly‘s in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
New York is a brutally expensive place to live, and the kind of person who might have the dedication and esoteric taste to make the comics that I would really love is finding it more relaxing to live elsewhere.
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
I’m pretty indiscriminating, and I have awful taste, generally.
I love art dealers. In some ways, they’re my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
I have an opinion. I have my own taste.
A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.
I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
This is Seattle. We’re supposed to have superior taste.
I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.
Sometimes it’s just ‘Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.’ I’m not going to lie to you – I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.
We had experienced so much as kids, and I kind of feel like we learned a lot about the industry that put a little bit of a bad taste in our mouth, whether it was a couple of people we worked with or whether it was just trying to find the right inspiration or what have you.
For sure, I’m an acquired taste. People who’ve had that acquisition, who’ve acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.
Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
I’m a snacker, but also health-conscious. I thought there had to be an alternative to what was out there. But it had to taste good – if it doesn’t taste good, it isn’t a snack.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else’s quality of mind.
I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone’s wife.
