Top 64 Quotes About Acquired Taste
#1. Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.
Donald Miller
#2. Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it's like plunging your hand in ice water--it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb.
Tiffany Schmidt
#3. Money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.
Helen McCloy
#4. I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
Marc Maron
#5. Denounce useless guilt. Don't make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
Erica Jong
#6. I'm an acquired taste. I'm anchovies. If I was potato chips I could go more places.
Tori Amos
#8. Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
Shawn Amos
#9. Well they have to have something to wean Caluntians off Venusian moles. Seems humans are the best therapy, to consume that is. They say we are a bit gamey though. An acquired taste, one we hope not many acquire.
Neil Leckman
#10. Don't spit, swallow: there is protein and other good stuff in male semen; it's an acquired taste and, once acquired, totally addictive.
Chloe Thurlow
#11. I'm like kale; you know that leafy green stuff? I'm an acquired taste. You either hate me or love me. Either way, I really don't give a shit. -Emma (Fight With Me)
Nicole Callesto
#12. I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
Jonathan Demme
#13. Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
Eli Broad
#14. I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.
Hunter S. Thompson
#16. So?" Mac says.
I shrug.
"Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?"
"It was nice, I guess."
"You guess?" Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. "Tough crowd."
"Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.
Ashley Mansour
#17. Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Erica Jong
#19. And then I tasted a sharp acid rising in my stomach. It is an acquired taste, the essence of fear.
Kathy Hatfield
#21. But true intimacy is just like that: it's the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it's an acquired taste.
Donald Miller
#23. I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
Saul Williams
#25. Ceviche is an acquired taste, a phrase which here means something you don't like the first few times you eat it ...
Lemony Snicket
#28. For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.
David Costabile
#29. An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
Abigail Padgett
#30. An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.
Manohla Dargis
#31. she said with a smile. "I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to
know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very
slowly.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#32. Transformation is an acquired taste - not for the faint of heart.
Bob Anderson
#33. I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking.
Kevin Sinnott
#35. You smoke? (Randy) Only when I'm on fire. (Steele) I don't appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I'm an acquired taste. (Steele)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire ... .
... .The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty
Walter Kaufmann
#37. Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. I'm an acquired taste, he assured her, displaying one dimple, but addictive.
Stephanie Bond
#41. [She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did.
L.M. Montgomery
#42. Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I've come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.
Joe Perry
#43. Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.
Helen McCloy
#44. I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
Tori Amos
#45. To think Viviane was beautiful required a certain acquired taste. It was the kind of beauty perceived only through the eyes of love.
Leslye Walton
#46. Very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a "master of the English tongue." Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs,
Daniel Defoe
#47. Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Delphine De Girardin
#48. If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#49. No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
Cyril Connolly
#50. The desire for her was a taste he had acquired with the first sip. What would become of him when he could no longer drink from her sweet well?
Deana James
#51. I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
Yves Klein
#53. ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.
Hunter S. Thompson
#54. Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#55. I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.
Alice Krige
#56. I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.
Arjun Rampal
#57. Lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired
John Stuart Mill
#58. I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me.
Mark Kirkbride
#59. The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.
Gilbert Adair
#60. I HAVE already hinted that the dainty, squeamish, and fastidious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading, had not only rendered our hero unfit for serious and sober study, but had even disgusted him in some degree with that in which he had hitherto indulged. He
Walter Scott
#61. To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
George Henry Lewes
#62. We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
Charles Lamb
#63. After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.
Hamish Bowles
#64. Fortunately, Captain Helena Thorn had acquired a reputation for an eclectic taste in sexual companions and a fast turnover
Sophie Angmering
