“[takes a drag of his cigarette] Mmmm mmmm, tastes like steak and potatoes doesn't it? Mmmm.”
Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian
Sane Man (1989)
“The whiskey tasted like bear steaks and river mud and the flesh of an oak tree. I had another swallow because it tasted so good.”
— Michael Chabon, book Wonder Boys
Wonder Boys (1995)
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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
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Hans Frank (1900–1946) German war criminal
To Leon Goldensohn, February 12, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.”
Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990) American jazz singer
Interview, The Hollywood Reporter, 1974
“I like champagne—because it always tastes like my foot's asleep.”
Art Buchwald (1925–2007) journalist, humorist, United States Marine
Some Heady Phrases on Wine http://books.google.com/books?id=uFDq4ORNvPkC&q=%22I+like+champagne+because+it+always+tastes+like+my+foot's+asleep%22&pg=PA143#v=onepage, New York Herald Tribune (1954) http://goodgrape.com/index.php/articles/comments/wine_sediments6
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Essays (1625)
Context: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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“You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Warrior Heir
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970) Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
The Bridal Canopy https://books.google.it/books?id=wg4WAAAAMAAJ, translated by I. M. Lask, New York: Literary Guild of America, 1937, p. 222.
