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.

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.

Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I’ve also stood in front of those same paintings with people who’ve...

The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile; put a cube of good attitudes into it and you...

A can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and...

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.[..] It makes you...

It’s been awhile. And once you taste it, I think, you want to get back to it because it’s a great feeling.

So taste the result of the insolence of your governments.

Everybody got a taste of the big time and that is the goal.

But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons....

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.

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

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

You want to taste the earthy flavor of wild rice.

I could smell something. Fear.I could taste it now.It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him …

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his...

Ik lees nauwelijks fictie. Onder ons gezegd en gezwegen, ik vind het iets voor verveelde huisvrouwen. Fictie. Dan Brown heb ik gelezen, omdat zoveel mensen dat kochten. Ik dacht, eens kijken of de massa smaak...

Taste it and you will get a desire for it.–Irish Proverb

Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.

I’m too two for my taste. I want to be more one, more of a winner. If I start thinking like a champion, maybe I’ll start cheating like one.