A Quote by Helen McCloy

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

Helen McCloy

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Helen McCloy
American - Writer
June 6, 1904 - December 1, 1994

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.

David Costabile

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

Helen McCloy

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.

Robert Barry

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

Fritz Machlup

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

Diane von Furstenberg

Reality is an acquired taste.

Robert Fritz

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

Mark Van Doren

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Emily Dickinson

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

Carrie Fisher

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Patricia Hampl

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Cyril Connolly

A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

Henry Clay Trumbull

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

Saul Williams

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle. And the same thing with math, and the same thing with art. You'll find people who are geniuses, or prodigies at the far end of the bell shaped curve, and I think you will find some of the acquired savants in that category who happened to have been endowed with that kind of talent, which explains why not everyone becomes an acquired savant.

Darold Treffert

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