Best taste & lost Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.”

Used Lost Taste Used To Be Pregnant Mcdonalds Fast Food Junkie Connoisseur

Author:Holly Madison

“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.”

Feels Book Ideas Lost Half Century Taste Pages Good Things Prepared Dishes 20th Century Lost You Pages Turning

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.”

Men Art Artist Lost Challenges Awareness Taste Offers Skills Competition Instinct Simplicity Appetite Relish

Author:Jacques Barzun

“People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.”

People Thinking Believe Made Lost Audience Like You Taste Intelligent Distinction Artificial Underestimate Maxims Like Yourself Lost Money

Author:Douglas Adams

“We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.”

Lost Memories Taste Maturity Grieving Rejoice

Book:Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

Source: Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

“Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'”

“A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.”

Hands Lost Grows Identity Taste Familiar Dull Shops Coats Second Hand Overused

Author:Anais Nin

“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.”

Men Whole Body Might Turns Lost Community Cities Dying Havens Taste Busy Graves Occasions Mates Good Taste Breach Undertaker

Book:Lost Haven

Source: Lost Haven

“I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.”

Book Different Reading Father Lost Causes Sadness Taste Six Eating Agree Cooking Cooks Obsessed Kitchen Seconds Recipes Tasting Eating Food Happiness Sadness

Author:Richard Simmons

“The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.”

World Feels Mind Heart Passion Lost Interest Taste Scene Dignity And Love Innocence Ridicule Meek Hearts And Love

Book:The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

“My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.”

Firsts Jobs Lost New York Taste Ice Hated Friendly Uniforms Cream Colleagues Ice Cream Albany

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.”

Giving Heart Care Lost Hours Wealth Pleasure Wise Honor Taste Health Care Cheerful Timely

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

“Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets.”

Men May Lost Sweet Taste Losing Gun Doctors Ruins Rope Pills Men Women Undone Treacle

Book:The Beggar's Opera

Source: The Beggar's Opera

“The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.”

People Whole Culture Lost Loses Personality Taste Instruments Decline Personal Taste National Culture

Author:Robert Graves

“I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.”

Lost Taste Crafts Renaissance

Author:Domenico Gnoli

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.”

Ifs Thinking World Lost Support Taste Endure Ill Shoulders Melancholy Arrogant Agony Puzzles Mazes Conceited Lapses Bad Taste Atlas Diabolical Thinking Of Yourself

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?”

Needs Should Heart Use Passion Lost Loses Taste Sight Terror Hearing Smell Honestly Contact Should I My Passion Inquisition

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!”

Used Lost Taste Thighs Strawberries Clutch

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“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”

Persons Self Helping Wisdom Order Turns Lost Knowing Self Love Taste Despair Absolutes Extremes Luxury Rotten

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.”

World Feels Choices Universe Reading Lost Felt Bits Sports Goes On Taste Kissing Pages Drinking Coffee Dry Sunlight Cleaning Ripple Lost Myself Dry Cleaning

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

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