No Taste Quotes

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

I love making pizza with cauliflower dough. Again, can't taste the difference once you add enough ingredients.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

There are many wines that taste great, but do not drink well

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.

Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

My summer tip is to taste the freedom given by the long days - and by the holidays!

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon!

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.

I smell blood. I'm like a pit bull. Once I taste blood I'm on you .. and I'm about to taste blood.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.

Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.