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Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.
Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.
As a matter of fact , personally I am ok with exposing, as long as it is done in good taste.
I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.
If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.
This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Every time I put out music and it goes well, it's a confirmation of your taste and your gut.
I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.
All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.
What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.
Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.
I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
I think that just your tastes change as you get older and I think they'll continue to change.
I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.
Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.
Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.
I've always had real good taste; no matter how poor I've been, I've had good taste in clothes.
You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.
"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.