#tastes

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#discipline #either #else #natural #others

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#insight #mind #reading #tastes #attitude

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. ↗

— Corita Kent

#each #get #harmony #inside #kind

Winning tastes good. ↗

— Jean-Claude Killy

#tastes #winning

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes. ↗

— Peter Munk

#business #get #into #personal #tastes

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#cool #enjoy #everything #go #good

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#find #getting #i #imposing #judgements

The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up. May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks? ↗

— Samuel Butler

#reading #men

I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food. ↗

— Carla Bley

#america #bit #cars #enjoy #enough

I like reality. It tastes like bread. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#i #like #reality #tastes