Top 1200 Personal Taste Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

I don't have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.

When you taste winning the World Series, you want to do that every year.

Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.

It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.

The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

My personal life was my personal life and no one's business.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

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

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.

Independent booksellers tend to have good taste and big mouths.

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

The United States must get a taste of its own poison.

As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out whats in it.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute.

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

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

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

I feel like truth resonates, and you can taste when something is synthetic.

[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

In the well-ordered home we may experience a taste of heaven.

I think I have better taste now than I did then.

I think the political is personal, and the personal is political.

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

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

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

It's like a koala pooped a rainbow on my head and I can taste the colors.

I had a taste for this fashion industry that I loved and wanted to be a part of.

Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.