If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.