“We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.” IfsMenWorldWantMindMayLittlesBookDifferentForceGrowthQualityStyleTasteOppositesCatholicUnionsExcellenceNotionSpreadVarietyIntolerancePreciseArbitraryCapriciousSophistryDifferent Minds Author:William Hazlitt
“The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.” HumansLaughingHuman NatureTasteNotionMannersCivilizedVulgarVulgarityHygieneDecorumVulgarity Is Author:Roger Ebert
“As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.” MenWellsMeanNationsCenturySeriousTasteCapacityConcernPropertyWesternNotionFavorsPursuitPrimariesLeisureProsperousSerious Life Author:Allan Bloom
“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.” LongSaidCareWealthExistenceGoneStupidObjectsComfortTasteSickInstitutionsMajorityNotionPrimariesGenerosityHospitalsOfficersAestheticApologyFoundersWoundedPhilanthropyExhibitsBenevolentBeneficiaries Author:Jane Swisshelm
“I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.” ThinkingChallengesTasteNotionPoliteAccusedBad Taste Author:Margaret Cho
“The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.” PeopleYearsMightOne ThingTasteConcernNotionEnthusiasmI Have LearnedEditingPublishEditsGuesswork Author:Norman Cousins
“I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.” I CanHandsIndividualBeliefMy OwnAdviceTasteOffersNotionBecause I Can Author:Erol Alkan
“I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.” TasteNotionBad Taste Author:Margaret Cho
“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.” IfsKnowsMomentsDifficultKnow HowDoorsComfortTasteNotionAbundanceWithin ReachDifficult MomentsApricots Author:Isabel Allende