“Passion paralyzes good taste.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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“If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.”
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Le désir du privilège et le goût de l'égalité, passions dominantes et contradictoires des Français de toute époque.
in La France et son armée.
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Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
Le bon goût, le tact et le bon ton, ont plus de rapport que n'affectent de le croire les Gens de Lettres. Le tact, c'est le bon goût appliqué au main- tien et à la conduite; le bon ton, c'est le bon goût appliqué aux discours et à la conversation.
Maximes et Pensées, #427
Maxims and Considerations, #427
“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”
Charles Bukowski book Hollywood
Source: Hollywood
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. <br class="br">François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Nothing tastes as good as looking good feels.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”
Kate Moss (1974) English model and businesswoman
Time magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1942964,00.html