Quotes of: Tasteful Keyword

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. S...

The Book Thief

For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many...

Housekeeping

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and p...

Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus, it would get richer and deeper each year. You kept learning more, getting wiser, having more insight, going further into the trut...

The Sheltering Sky

I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as ...

Helen Keller

I still dream to quiver rich, And we still tremble poor. Over, under, Madam and Bitch, To each, her John Does floor. Grieved cliche to ban the kiss, And yet we all refuse. To add one name onto our lists, Of cants, and don'ts, and dudes. Unuttered sig...

Hannah Kilfoyle

After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day had left him with. He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a li...

Douglas Adams

John Milton: Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own p...

The Devil's Advocate

Sam: [Both are overcome by exhaustion] Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields......

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power. For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart. Two such opposèd kings encamp them still, In man as well as ...

William Shakespeare

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

The Complete Essays

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

A Clash of Kings

Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.

Coyote

Death makes its own choices. Has reasoning an order has a taste…

The Dark Notes, Book I

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

Dubious Musings of a Peculiar Man

What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.

Daimones

Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)

Dragonswan

It is practically a matter of life or death for a True Cock Worshiper to taste pre-cum.

Demonsapienism & True Cock Worship: True Cock Worship

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Emma

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter. the Tai Chi instructor

Fatigue Artist

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.

Fallen Legion