Quotes of: Tasteful Keyword

And you are?” She fluttered her hand over her face and brushed a wisp of light brown hair from her brow. The governor calls me Kitty. It’d probably be best if you did, too.” What an alluring name? It makes me think of a cat with its lips covere...

Love

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.

Caesar and Christ

I am not used to hating. Hate sits heavy on my heart. It reeks. I can smell it rotting my insides and I taste it on my tongue.

Coconut

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

This is my heart—carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.

In the Cities of Coin and Spice

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

Darkest Fear

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

Don't You Forget About Me

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

An Essay on Criticism

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

The False Principle of Our Education

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

His tongue felt good, it tasted good, it was all just good. Not just good. It was better than good. I missed this. I loved kissing and, Lord, did I miss it.

The Gamble

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

Guitar Highway Rose

take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as w...

Gulliver's Travels

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

The Awakening

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

The Black Company

What are you?” he demanded. “A slayer?" I rolled my eyes. “The name's Val, not Buffy. Do I look like a blond cheerleader with questionable taste in men?

Bite Me

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Brida

Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it's like plunging your hand in ice water--it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb.

Bright Before Sunrise