Taste Quotes · Page 44

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination…

— Jane Austen

Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the…

— Ken Wilber

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

— Louis Kronenberger

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or…

— Emily Saliers

“The pull of lingering dreams, the strong, bitter taste of morning coffee, the ticking clock, and horn of awaiting bus form a…

— Vijaya Gowrisankar

My taste for rappers is very high. I've only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface.

— Mike Dean

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

— Anonymous

[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise…

— Sol LeWitt

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves,…

— V. S. Pritchett

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag…

— George Porter

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch,…

— Heinz Kohut

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get…

— Jonathan Sacks

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music…

— Trevor Horn

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and…

— Thomas Reid

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're…

— Ron Ben-Israel

Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention…

— Samuel Johnson

Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are…

— Erich Fromm

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

— Jamie Oliver

You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's…

— Nadia Giosia

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

— Joshua Reynolds

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors,…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

— Catherine Wilson

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

— Matthew Perry