What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element, and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits, and character.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him?

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don’t get creative writing like that any more.

I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there’s a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I’m just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.

About chocolate: This is what laughing tastes like.

Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind

The writer’s task is to reveal the hidden connections between people and the world, to uncover the universal in the particular.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

The anti-gun urban liberals are really not that much more evolved. They have an equal and opposite fanaticism about guns—that to own one is to be a latent murderer. But worse than that, it’s to be tasteless. There is a raft of assumptions that go with gun ownership.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Only in the present, can you savor the aroma, taste the sweetness, appreciate the delicacy

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

I’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

I love eating out. I don’t deny that. But I don’t want 12 or 15 courses because the chef wants me to taste this or taste that. I just want to be able to decide.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.

I’m dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It’s just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don’t have time for these clowns.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.

There’s a taste in my mouth and it’s no taste at all.

Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece. I don’t even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have it on my mind any more

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Democracy encourages the taste for physical gratification

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

I think animal crackers make people think that all animals taste the same

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.