Taste Test Quotes

#1. We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.

David Blunkett

#2. With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.

Michael Bolton

#3. Megan, I'm pretty sure none of my family is going to break out into song like in a Bollywood movie tonight, he said, with amusement ringing in his voice.

Katie Ashley

#4. It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

Lupe Fiasco

#5. We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal-federal cufflink.

George W. Bush

#6. It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.

Richard Matheson

#7. Got plans for the rest of the day ?"
"No plans," I whispered. Test drive your mattress? Let me pretend to be a Skittle and you can taste my rainbow? Fifty Shades me? Please ! Oh, holy horror, I'm freaking losing it.

Christine Zolendz

#8. Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Phil Plait

#9. Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

Patrick Wolff

#10. These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

Gish Jen

#11. I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!

Elinor Wylie

#12. Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.

Sherman Alexie

#13. Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#14. I find that a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread.

Mitch Hedberg

#15. There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.

Roger Stone

#16. I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

Byron Katie

#17. In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

#19. What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and everyone would go running towards it, and then taste, and then brutally deconstruct the dish.

Ruth Reichl

#20. The X had released its first wave of chemical optimism, I could feel it float up inside me like a big test balloon and splatter on the roof of my mouth, spraying good cheer. I could almost taste it, like a fizzy pink jelly.

Gillian Flynn

#21. You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

Pete Rose