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“[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.”

Cities Taste Structure Architecture Combination Officials Conceit Hideous Cathedrals Bad Taste Asphalt

Author:Robert Moses

“I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.”

Should Three Interest Groups Mines Strange Taste Logic Accounts Ancient Fantastic Combination Permanent Odd Abstract Strain Parallels Eccentricity

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.”

Forever Taste Awakening Combination Teens Early 20s

Author:Ken Livingstone

“In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.”

Writing May Sometimes Moral Mankind Taste Judgment Weak Unions Faults Excellence Combination Merit Disgusting Transcendent

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.”

“The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.”

Beautiful Born Nice Taste Perception Highest Appreciation Combination Faculty Admiration Deserving Admiring Knowledge And Wisdom

Book:OUR VILLAGE

Source: OUR VILLAGE

“When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.”

Art Fashion Taste Combination Delicacy High Art

Author:Erykah Badu

“People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.”

People Certain Stars Player Rocks Taste Lucky Musician Jazz Combination Sugar Genes Right Time Orchestra Qualified Rock Star Jazz Music Right Place Jazz Musician Gimmicks

Author:Gene Simmons

“What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same time has absolutely no taste whatsoever for even the slightest loss or bloodshed or ickiness. That's a fascinating combination.”

States Feelings Desire Culture Loss United United States Taste Extraordinary Currents Combination Fascinating Bloodshed Machismo

Author:Jaron Lanier

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

Feels Might Wanted Used Three Felt Simple Behinds Wonder Honest Habit Comfort Taste Expectations Incredibles Combination Decadence Syllables Sean Three Words

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

Feels Wanted Felt Wonder Comfort Taste Incredibles Combination Decadence

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel