Top 222 Tastes Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Tastes Quotes from famous people such as John Cheever, Oscar Wilde, Alice Waters, Lee Ranaldo, Eleanor Mondale, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
John Cheever
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.
Alice Waters
By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud of the fact that we had three different singers singing individually from different points of view, like the Dead.
Lee Ranaldo
I make bad choices. I’ve got such dodgy tastes in men.
Eleanor Mondale
Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to be of a certain Southern culture and a certain age, and his talents and tastes had been molded accordingly.
Thomas Chatterton Williams
We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
My mom and dad have two very different tastes in music, so they were playing everything from Prince to the Beatles to Aaliyah.
Lexi Underwood
I don’t need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.
Colin Hanks
I don’t have very eclectic tastes in music.
John Petrucci
My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.
Josh Silver
I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible – which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.
Spike Jonze
My father would make music keeping public tastes in mind. I have inherited this from him.
Bhushan Kumar
I’m a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It’s manlier. You’re touching things to make sounds appear.
Action Bronson
I don’t have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
Emmanuel Macron
As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn’t understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
Taryn Manning
My tastes have always been pretty cheesy. I like Def Leppard. At the same time, my tastes might be pretty universal. I don’t know.
Max Martin
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
I’ve grown up with my parents’ music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
Saoirse Ronan
My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic’s labour.
Marie Antoinette
I never want to make a film. I don’t wake up in the morning going, ‘Ooh, I’d really love to be on set making a film today’. I’m aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.
Stephen Daldry
I love cake. I love pie. I love potato chips. I love salt. I do not want yogurt, plain yogurt. It’s healthy. ‘Why don’t you like it?’ Because it tastes like bad breath.
Bill Cosby
Where my tastes in music are concerned, I’m a real maximalist.
James Levine
We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s – it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
Zong Qinghou
I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn’t work as well as it does.
Hanya Yanagihara
Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
Octavio Paz
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.
Steve Scalise
The beautiful thing about ‘The Strain Trilogy’ is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.
Chuck Hogan
I have really diverse tastes, which can be problematic sometimes, but it’s good because it means I’m always listening to as much music as possible. I love listening to music, whatever genre it is.
Richard Fleeshman
If I had done ‘Go, New York, Go’ for the Spurs, it might not have worked. It really taught me a lot about demographics and tastes and styles. I never went to business school, so that whole experience was my crash course in marketing, contracts, negotiations, and product launches.
Jesse Itzler
My grandmother Rosita, my mother Angela and I have probably got different styles but we have very similar tastes. For example, I don’t find it hard to use colours or wear knits, since it’s something that comes to me naturally.
Margherita Missoni
Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.

Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.
Jinder Mahal
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Moliere
It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.
Rodney Stark
I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It’s simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator… I don’t want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.
Leonard Slatkin
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
The C.E.O. of Google doesn’t look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.
Maureen Dowd
If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear.
Mae Martin
The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.
Susanna Fogel
If you want to eat my fish, you have to come to Padstow. It’s like the Med – people want local fish in a local restaurant. I think it tastes better in Cornwall.
Rick Stein
I have pretty unsophisticated tastes; I enjoy the videos on ‘You’ve Been Framed’ a lot – I don’t think there’s much that’s funnier than people falling over. I prefer that to Bill Hicks.
Alex Horne
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
Rupert Murdoch
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don’t seem to care about the fat aspect.
Eric Schlosser
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Georg Trakl
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
Corita Kent
I’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
Vivienne Westwood
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, ‘Food.’ The basic plot hasn’t changed for centuries. I shouldn’t need to know any more details, any more history, in order to decide if my food tastes good or not.
David Fahrenthold
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show – in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever – is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
Deborah Harkness
2NE1 was special because we each had different characters and styles, for individual tastes.
CL
I’m an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.
Justin Cronin
The French have bizarre tastes. Maybe that’s why they like me.
Murray Head
I grew up listening pretty much just to pop music. But the older I’ve gotten, the more varied my musical tastes have become.
Perez Hilton
My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil’ Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.
Josh Hartnett
Let’s say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that’s simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this – so I don’t want fancy descriptions getting in the way.
Ronald Frame
I went last week to get hypnotized. To quit smoking. And the hypnotist said, ‘The reason you smoke is you’re bitter and depressed.’ No, the reason I smoke is the little sucker tastes so good.
Lewis Grizzard
A key rule for every cook should be not to buy food when it’s out of season because it’s expensive and tastes awful.
Gino D’Acampo
Everybody has their own appreciation of the Beach Boys, depending on where they’re coming from with their musical tastes, so we tried to be representative of all eras and of everybody in the band and their contributions.
Mike Love