Taste Quotes · Page 65

The time that I spent overseas working as a model, all of those experiences influenced my personality and personal taste.

— HoYeon Jung

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when…

— Charles Dickens

My mom has said she wished I were gay... I don't think she likes my taste in men.

— Pamela Anderson

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me…

— Peter Mayle

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the…

— Igor Stravinsky

I know I'm not everyone's taste and that's fine, and that is the beauty of digital and radio that you can find…

— Zoe Ball

I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.'…

— Zooey Deschanel

I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area…

— Roger Ebert

I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.

— Jessie Ware

I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored…

— Ozzy Osbourne

In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

— Anonymous

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of…

— Seneca the Younger

I love to leave, to be ready-for, to be on the run! That's my boyish side, it's the pant's me! Pants which…

— Sonia Rykiel

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

— Evelyn Waugh

Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty…

— David Gerrold

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

— Britta Phillips

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a…

— Claude Monet

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.

— Manolo Blahnik

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding…

— Suzanne Collins

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

— Terry Southern

It is more beautiful to trust in God. The beautiful in this world is all from his hand, declaring the perfection of…

— Lew Wallace

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share…

— Diane Ackerman

But not all of them are decorated to the same level of taste.

— Max Maven

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

— David Bowie

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost…

— Hermann Hesse

I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse.…

— Sasha Grey

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and…

— Walter Kirn

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

— Russell Lynes

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like…

— Haley Reinhart

There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved…

— Andre Leon Talley

“Are humans nutritional idiots? Our palates aren't just out of tune with our bodily needs. Our palates are out to kill us.”

— Mark Schatzker

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his…

— Samuel Johnson

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

— Anonymous

First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks…

— Gail Simmons

“I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in…

— John Updike

Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should…

— Peter McWilliams