To Acquire A Taste Quotes

#1. Children aren't supposed to like dark chocolate. It's one of those bitter things that you are meant to acquire a taste for later in life, like olives and self-pity.

Emma Jane Unsworth

#2. Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

Eddie Murphy

#3. The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

Aldous Huxley

#4. All other beer is ass, and I will not put in the the work to acquire the taste for things that taste like ass.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#5. I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

Erik Estrada

#6. When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

Mason Cooley

#7. 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

#8. Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Alfred North Whitehead

#10. The times change, but the nature of men does not. Such men ... will not find our new age more favorable, and they will tell us that their evils are only necessities of the times. But they will linger in the house of the Devil, savor his vintage, and acquire a taste for it.

Michael Ennis

#11. Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#13. He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

Tim Scott

#15. It's not the end of it when you've drowned your black thoughts, because afterwards there are blue thoughts and red thoughts and yellow thoughts ...

Rene Daumal

#16. Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.

Sparky Anderson

#17. Everyone's gonna have their opinion, everyone's gonna have their favorite bands. The best way I can describe it is music is like food, either you love it, hate it, or are indifferent about it. Or you grow up and acquire a taste for it.

Phil Anselmo

#18. Everything Six eats is only eaten to compliment her main course of Nutella. Tonight, she's having a cheese and Nutella sandwich. I don't know if I could ever acquire a taste for that.

Colleen Hoover

#19. She is the prettiest and most engaging little fairy in the world.

Charles Dickens

#20. The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

Henry A. Kissinger

#21. But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.

Jack Gilbert

#22. 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

#23. The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#24. His little body convulsed in my arms with each sob.

Khaled Hosseini

#25. Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Mary Wesley

#26. I'm not bitter for they are telling me I am HISTORY
You wouldn't be bitter if you are HISTORY any of you
A MAN would not be bitter if entering History! nor should a WOMAN
Break my heart, better than break my nose (you bastards)
Revenge is SWEET (& I need to acquire that taste)

Joyce Carol Oates

#27. A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

Natalie Portman

#29. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

Joan Didion

#30. A beer doesn't have to be difficult to acquire, but damned if that doesn't make everything taste better.

Patrick Dawson

#31. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.

Dan Abnett