Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
Human nature is full of riddles;. . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?
At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.
Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.
I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.
Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
As far as the media's concerned, Mrs. Obama deserves this. Look at the sordid past. Look at our slave past, look at the discriminatory past. It's only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America too.