#taste

Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question. ↗

— Colin Watson

#impoverished-thought #education

Brick” could be the name of a restaurant. But so could “Blah,” “Gruel,” and “A Taste of the Gulag.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #food #gruel #gulag

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#humor #taste #humor

Can I just say that the first kiss of your life (that you can remember) should not taste like cigarette smoke? With that said, it is a heart-melting, nerve-wracking, body-aching, feet-sweating, overall best first kiss ever. ↗

— Anonymous

#first-kiss #heart-melting #kiss #taste #life

Poison Ivy tastes like an itch when you have it on your tongue, and I’d say that love tastes the same, only itchier. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #poison-ivy #taste #tongue #love

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#metaphysical #philosophy #taste #metaphysics

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted ↗

— Lin Yutang

#taste #life

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#animal #animal lover #been #brussels #cared

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife. ↗

— Halle Berry

#bad taste #could #feel #guess #i

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#good taste #human #important #more #sometimes