No Taste Quotes

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Let things taste of what they are.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Taste is tiring like good company.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.

You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.

The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

Mmm, tastes like hepatitis!

Has every oyster a different taste?

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Sometimes you've got to eat a turd sandwich; makes the ribeye taste better next time.

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.