“The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.” PeopleWorldFeelsWellsMayHomeCertainKnownPositionHabitFitComfortTasteMembersCapacityTraditionDefenseExpectedCoreConsistentStereotypeWell KnownAdapted Author:Walter Lippmann
“Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.” IfsHeartSpiritRichWindFitTasteCriticismCommunicateExcellentGenerousChampagneSourMuddySparklingVapidColic Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.” LinesFitTasteChaosWitConceit Book:An Essay on Criticism Source: An Essay on Criticism
“Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.” TwoWould BeTogetherFoundPleasureFitTasteOrdinaryCapacityIdealsOnenessApplesSubtleCategoriesMatesCheeseDishesPieSageRiceTextureTranscendentalPorkIgniteStrawberriesPeasCookeryApple Pie Author:John Thorne
“There are any number of players with extensive jazz backgrounds who haven't been able to fit into other styles," "It all boils down to taste, to playing what's appropriate for the context in which you're working.” AbleNumbersPlayerStyleHavensFitTasteJazzBackgroundsAppropriate Author:Larry Carlton
“The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying to fit into today's style. So I think I have already a vibrating tool to an art form that isn't the mainstream. I'm very outside of the mainstream in my taste of music.” ThinkingTryingArtTodayFormSoundStyleFitTasteToolsMainstreamTrying To Fit In Author:Gordon Raphael
“No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.” WantNeedsLittlesWantedTurnsTelevisionHairWallBearsFitTasteWindowAddictionSizeRadioSmellScreensVolumeBrushesOrangeBricksPolishGlueSprayGasolineFingernailsBrick WallTelevision And RadioAddicted To Music Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.” InspireFitTasteAccountsIndividualityBeing YourselfAbout YourselfBe YouNonconformityIncumbentsJust Being YouLife PathConformity And IndividualityNot Being Yourself Author:Janeane Garofalo