No Taste Quotes

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

Let things taste the way they are.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.

I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

The people on Quintuplets were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.

I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.

A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

I found that no food tastes as good as what it feels like to be healthy.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

You do a movie and, even if it's not a comedy or it's not an action film, you get a little taste of it, and then I want to do it full force.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban vinyl collection from Miami thrift stores.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.