“There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.” LifeSaidWantedSuccessSonTastePoliceAccounting Author:Franklin P. Adams
“You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.” CountryPlayFactsNamesRolesTastePolicePermitBansGood TasteBad Taste Author:John Irving
“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.” Has BeensSaidSeemsSubjectsOughtTastePolicePatienceHorribleOfficersDetectivesDiscussingPolice Officer Book:Lady Audley's Secret Source: Lady Audley's Secret
“The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.” PeopleGovernmentActionBeliefGroupsTastePolicePrivilegedCrowAffirmative ActionAffirmativeJim CrowPolice Power Author:Charles A. Murray
“My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.” SoulFilmArtistMinesGoes OnTasteBandStandardsCatPolicePopsListsLocalsGenreRangeScore80sVocalFoldsFunkAnnieMotownBopsFilm Scores Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.” StatesPartyTasteMembersPoliceBitterBitternessCommunistPolice StateUnforgettableCommunist Party Author:Elia Kazan
“I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.” ArtBoysStudentsTasteEnglandPoliceMusicalLondonEmergenceRadarRamonesArt StudentsMusical TasteCbgb Author:Alan Rickman
“Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee." Cup coffee?" Taste it." What? Are you the coffee police or something?” IfsWayFirstsWaitingWonderHairTastePoliceSmellCoffeeCupsBugsCoffee CupNorth Of Beautiful Author:Justina Chen
“Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.” PeopleKnowsLastsGuyGirlFatherHousePoorBoysTasteDrugTenJokesPicksPoliceCalmPhonesCupsTeaJimmyFartCups Of TeaMiaWeird PeopleJustinePoor TasteWill Trombal Book:Saving Francesca Source: Saving Francesca