The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable. — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
“The desire for her was a taste he had acquired with the first sip. What would become of him when he could… — Deana James Copy Share Image
I love judging food by its smell and feel and taste. The healthiest tomato isn't always the perfect one that's been covered… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds. — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and… — Shirley Henderson Copy Share Image
The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat.… — Roselyn Sanchez Copy Share Image
Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“My Cup of AL MO MOTTO...oh yeah, I love that taste in my mouth but drinking too much can be too much… — Kelvin Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I'd filled my body with so much poison it was all I could taste. — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
“And now I want to get yesterday down while I still have the awful taste of it” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
