The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

Taste of coffee varies with the person on the other end of table.

He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you’re perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it’s more to do...

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels

The aroma of the food may not have any connotation with it’s taste and the nutrients it contains

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

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

A sample may taste better than the whole, because it’s meant for a taste test, which is perceptually expected to garner favorable results. This is why I can’t give you all my love. Plus, you...

The best ingredient is free. Free always makes food taste better.

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too...

We think that would probably go beyond the bounds of good taste.

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste… [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems...

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.

Taste is tiring like good company.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it. Is it timing? Waiting? Abstaining? Obligation? Longing? Torture? Perseverance? Discipline? Wanting? Someone...

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig’s milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

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.

Getting this far almost leaves a bitter taste in your mouth,

You can never make someone like something they don’t like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is “good”. Nor is there any way of definitely proving that–for instance–Warwick Beeping is...

After you, it’s all cheap tequila.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.

Number of empty Ben & Jerry’s containers: 3 — two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I have been brought up, so to speak, under its shadow; and stared at...

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life

The taste you will find in the chest of Tea you won’t be able to find it in any other chest.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like ‘Project Runway’.

Thence it is possible to arrive by easy stages at the happy notion, not uncommon among ‘intellectuals’, that taste consists of distaste, and that the loftiest of pleasures is that of feeling displeased; and thus...

I lick each envelope I mail, so I can taste the closure and anticipation of travel. If they tasted like ice cream, they’d match the love letters inside.

It’s a much sharper taste. It’s more intense. It really makes the dish jump out.

You can’t simplify my taste and say, ‘Parker likes big wines,’ because it’s just not true.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

A win is always the answer to get the bad taste out of your mouth. Beating Iowa is a great feeling. In our hearts, we all know we can beat any team in the country....

My tomatoes taste like tomatoes used to taste, ought to taste and still do taste.

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that...

Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

Don’t swallow any of that. It’ll spoil the taste of the bourbon.

I’m not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of...

I base my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.

Why don’t you like the foods I like?” he asks sometimes. “Why don’t you like the foods I make?” I answer.

Clearly she didn’t get out into society nearly enough. Her pulse had no taste in men whatsoever.