The good white man dies, the bad one remains.
A borrowed mule soon gets a bad back.
There's plenty of time to bemoan bad fortune once it arrives.
Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
We say cat tastes like chicken when, had we been weaned on kitten stew, we’d say chicken tastes like cat.
I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.
When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.
The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!
Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
Love is like being featherless in mid flight and not even wondering if you taste like chicken. My love must taste like ostrich, because I’m always running from it.
It’s not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter
The difference between being content and being blissfully happy is unquantifiable, and only those who experience the latter can understand just how mediocre the former can be.
Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and eat wild fish, farmed catfish taste cleaner, without the muddy taste of their wild relatives.
... it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the virtues of a woman through a blindfold kiss.
It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy peop...
You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats a...
My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
