No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take… — Ruggiero Ricci Copy Share Image
One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it. — Edward VII Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
I don't know that I have a favorite meal. When I'm cooking I'm thinking about the person I'm feeding and I want… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with cheating. It is just diversifying your taste.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The beer sold here in the United States is sweet and watery and lacking in taste and overcarbonated and just generally the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think animal crackers make people think that all animals taste the same. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Someone like Allan Holdsworth sometimes plays the wackiest things, but does it with panache, such taste. — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
London has massively influenced my taste, the culture, how little I want to say and how much I want to say, my… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being. — Rumi Copy Share Image
She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change. — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Roselyn lost her taste for bacon momentarily, which was as long as she was ever capable of losing it.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
When you taste a mango in the United States, it's just tasteless. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste. — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
