Top 575 Taste Quotes

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, ’cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You’re basically saying, ‘I can’t make this other food taste good, so I’ll throw in bacon.’

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist’s taste in music, or we’re told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal – the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.

I’m always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read – I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

The problem is that restaurants have assumed that kids don’t want to eat anything other than chicken nuggets or fast-food burgers, but they do. They want to eat things that taste good.

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.

I’m no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn’t taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It’s not a way to live.

My taste in both is pretty eclectic. I do encourage people to try new and different kinds of tea if they can – there are so many different sorts, and so many, flavored or not, and there’s bound to be something you like. The same with choral music, really.

If you do your fair day’s work, you are certain to get your fair day’s wage – in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I’ll fire up my season 2 DVD of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210.’

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Sometimes it’s just ‘Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.’ I’m not going to lie to you – I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone’s taste.

I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn’t taste like anything much.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

It’s not hard to motivate myself because once you get a taste for winning races, you simply don’t want to do anything else. You get a buzz from it. You want it every day. Only someone who has experienced winning can understand how good it feels.

Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.

I don’t feel I’m thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

‘Jurassic Park’ is like ‘Star Wars.’ Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte… ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual’s taste.

As you eat more healthily, your palate changes – it’s amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

I love Hershey’s chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn’t taste good to me. I don’t get it!

If you’re dining with someone who wants the same cut, it’s always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you’ll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat.

I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

I’ve never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with – dogs and cats, for example – from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

I’m willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

I can taste a meal and tell you every spice that’s in there. I have taste buds like Betty Grable’s legs – they should be insured with Lloyd’s of London.

Racing is a great sport, but we need people to come along and see that for themselves. Maybe they’re not used to going racing or haven’t been before, but I think people get a taste for it; they do come back.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or ‘Take That.’ And if you liked ‘East 17’, it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.

I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.

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

I love dessert. I can’t be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don’t want to see how it was made.

There are no actions involved in ‘beautiful.’ It’s such an inactive thing, and it’s so subject to each individual’s taste and appreciation. It’s a lovely word, but I feel like it’s been hijacked by really boring, dull people who don’t understand how to use words.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.

This is Seattle. We’re supposed to have superior taste.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I have realized that the taste of the viewer can constantly change. So you need to sniff out the need for change. Constantly restructuring your own business to cater to changing taste is imperative.

Someone asked how I feel about Captain Crunch. I’m capable of eating an entire box of it without any milk. It is a sweet taste that is indescribable. Captain Crunch is its own flavour.

There’s no common taste in this world.

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I’m not in the taste of the men there at all.

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

Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It’s all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don’t like: bell peppers.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste.

I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that’s great! Enjoy it, and don’t let anyone tell you not to.