Tasteless Quotes
60 quotes by 55 authors
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I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless…
— Robert Orben
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This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies…
— Denis Diderot
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
— Seneca the Younger
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The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
— Catullus
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If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it…
— Marcel Boulestin
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The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is…
— Ghada al-Samman
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Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have created the situation…
— Rajneesh
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The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as…
— Bob Blumer
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep…
— Calvin Trillin
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You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
— Elspeth Huxley
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The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
— Hakim Bey
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I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had…
— Andy Warhol
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Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world,…
— Martin Yan
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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have…
— Marcel Proust
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We...live in a world that is too prone to the tasteless, and we need to provide an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the finest…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will…
— John Steinbeck
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