#taste

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it. ↗

— Paul Graham

#creativity #taste #work #age

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#attitude #crime #habits #methods #mind

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #good-taste #literature #literature-quotes #poetry

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

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

We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too. ↗

— Billy Baldwin

#debt #due #europe #give #owe

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

— Lin Yutang

#taste #life

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#both #manners #more #myth #reality