The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon! — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return… — Teresa de la Parra Copy Share Image
Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come… — Yani Tseng Copy Share Image
Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was.… — Grieves Copy Share Image
I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth. — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work,… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. -… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future,… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste." — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image