Taste Quotes

It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if I'd discovered something I'd never tasted before in my short life. Or rediscovered it - for I associated it with the taste of water that came out of the well, accompanied with the ring of that long metal sleeve against the sides of the living mountain, as from deep down it was wound up to view brimming and streaming long drops behind it like bright stars on a ribbon. It thrilled me to drink from the common dipper. The coldness, the far, unseen, unheard springs of what was in my mouth now, the iron smell, all said mountain mountain mountain as I swallowed. Every swallow was making me a part of being here, sealing me in place, with my bare feet planted on the mountain and sprinkled with my rapturous spills. What I felt I'd come here to do was something on my own.

~ Eudora Welty

When you kiss me,your lips upon mine,your kisses taste so sweet,just like a glass of good wine.

~ Anthony T Hincks

A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.

~ Kevin Barry

If I saw my father's dead, great grand mother's dead and many other people's dead... So I can see and your's dead, I just see the planet without you. I just feel it, taste it, - it hurts me from this but this is the truth.

~ Deyth Banger

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

~ Brigid Lowry

revenge is only sweet to those whom rancor have distorted their taste.

~ Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

Had a person attempted to taste me so soon after we met, I would have been alarmed; but since Athena was an octopus, I was thrilled. Although we couldn’t have been more different — I, a terrestrial vertebrate constrained by joints and bound to air; she, a marine mollusk with not a single bone, who breathed water — she was clearly as curious about me as I was about her.

~ Sy Montgomery

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

~ Janeane Garofalo

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

~ Henry Adams

Taste is a mystery.

~ Daniel Mendelsohn

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

~ Georges Bizet

Today, Chanel sells nothing other than its griffe; the griffe is an absolute symbol for 'fashion' which, having become historical, is now able to sell this history better than it could sell fashion. Chanel's lasting success proves that fashion has become self-referential: the fetish of the mere name shows how it has begun to revolve around itself. The House of Chanel produces what Coco most abhorred: a thing of the past, dead. The visible, outwardly displayed griffe has become the opposite of individualized style: instead it confirms the latent uniform collectivity, which had always defined Chanel-wear; in the end, it signifies membership of an expensive club. The Chanel woman does not want to display her own taste, she wants to belong. In order to be certain, she is laden with Chanel signs and accessories, like amulets to protect against the evil eye; on the pocket, on the belt, on the dress buttons, on the watch, on costume jewelry, proudly stand the initials of the founder of the house, to which she knows she belongs.

~ Barbara Vinken

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?

~ Munia Khan

The taste of moon's song.

~ Cameron Conaway

It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The aroma of the food may not have any connotation with it's taste and the nutrients it contains

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

~ Manel Loureiro

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

~ Jacqueline Carey

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like.

~ Frank Zappa

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

~ Tim Gunn

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

~ Harold Holzer

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

~ Rachel Kushner

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

~ George Eliot

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

~ Billy Eichner

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

~ Jane Austen

The valiant never taste of death but once.

~ William Shakespeare

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

~ Susan Sontag

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

~ Alexander Pope

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

~ Dave Eggers

Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.

~ Eric Schlosser

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

~ Bill Bradley

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

~ Henry Adams

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.

~ John Madden