The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.