“Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.” ThinkingMenDoeSometimesEyeForceTasteRegardNotesCriticsDestroyedSicknessHoneyInferiorsSourDiseased Author:Saint Basil
“Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.” GivingKindCreativeStyleGeniusTasteNotesFollyFacultySublimeGiving Back Author:Bill Vaughan
“As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.” MenGivingDoeSoulStoriesSpiritOrderPoorQualityBloodParticularHabitTasteNotesManifestationInternalsChaptersRudeSuperficialEvidentGrossMarginsGarmentsBreedingManualsDegenerates Book:The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford Source: The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford
“I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?” PeopleWayWantFeelsIdeasValuesChoicesAsksMillionsKnowingFailingStageTasteNotesWrong ChoicesValue Systems Author:Amy Poehler
“When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.” I CanWholeTasteWineRoseNotesTobaccoCherriesPetalsDrinkersJackassesRose PetalsWine Drinkers Author:Joel Stein
“Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.” MindEyeSocialTasteHorrorNotesAttractionOccasionsAbortionOffenseShockedDecencyCriteriaBlasphemyPerversionStunnedValve Book:A Confederacy of Dunces Source: A Confederacy of Dunces