Acquired Taste Quotes

Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.

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)

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

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.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

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.

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

money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

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)

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Reality is an acquired taste.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.