Top 1200 Taste Buds Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There are things about the production I'm not crazy about though. People mix records to be heard in cars and to have the bass incredibly loud so the vocals have to fight with everything so there's no dynamic left, and that's kind of a bummer. That may not be my taste but I'm not going to go, "Kanye's not very good," because he's pretty badass. It's a difference in taste, like the New Pornographers and myself have different taste in production as well but it all works out in the end.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most people want to fit in with their tribe in some way or another, so they give off signals, whether it's with their clothes, their behavior, their car, their whatever, and gain status. Every tribe has a hierarchy, and that's what taste is: it's an unconscious display of who you are, and where you want to be.

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

I should have been born a crazy rich Asian because I do have expensive taste. I have champagne taste but I'm on a beer budget.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

How do they taste? They taste like more.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all?that is the want of taste?that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

My father did not drink beer. He said he didn't like the taste, and I was prepared to accept that I wouldn't like the taste either. So I stuck to bottled cider.

Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.

Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

Yannick, for me, is an example, an example for all the French players. We all want to taste ourselves what he was able to taste first.

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.

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.

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for people of all kinds.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

The fact that somebody that looks as unfortunate as I do sometimes would be an American taste god by the Bible of American taste, you know, I didn't see that coming!

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.