Personal Taste Quotes:

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

- Simon Cowell

topic: Hate, Mean, Thinking, Loathe, Political Correctness

From my personal taste, it needed more of a visual style. It's so hard when you're adapting something that's so visually scrumptious like Mike Oeming's drawings. They're so unique to comics, but they're a voice.

- Brian Michael Bendis

source: "Jessica Jones’ creator on the biggest change from comics to her Netflix show". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Unique, Voice, Drawing, Like Mike, Personal Taste

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.

- Eleanor Brown

topic: Levels, Taste, Provocative, Personal Taste

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.

- Kenneth E. Boulding

source: "Economics As A Moral Science" by Kenneth E. Boulding, in "American Economic Review", 59 (1), (p. 12), March 1969.

topic: Growing Up, Culture, Taste, Subculture, Personal Taste

The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.

- Robert Graves

topic: People, Personality, Culture, Personal Taste, National Culture

Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Cat, Names, Pie, Trusted Friends, Personal Taste

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

- David Bennun

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Interesting, Literature, Bob, Personal Taste

Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

- Tori Amos

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Suggestions, Able, Taste, Personal Taste

I think that's the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

- Christina Ricci

source: "IGN Interviews Christina Ricci". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. January 7, 2004.

topic: Thinking, Careers, Taste, Personal Taste

My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.

- Vince Vaughn

topic: Character, People, Tragedy, Personal Taste, Sketch Comedy

I would say that I'm a really eclectic music lover, so I love the fact that one month I will be doing one kind of music and the next month I will be doing something very different and I think that really works for me in terms of my own personal tastes and styles.

- Christopher Lennertz

topic: Thinking, Style, Different, Personal Taste, Music Lover

I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more important to get your music out there and if people want to hear it an mp3 form or whatever I'm fine with that, I just don't enjoy the sound of it at home for personal taste.

- Butch Walker

source: Source: www.soundscapemagazine.com

topic: Stupid, Home, Thinking, Not Stupid, Personal Taste

I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.

- Grant Morrison

source: Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

topic: Cutting, Careers, Editors, Personal Taste

I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

- Al Yankovic

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Rocks, Guitar, Appreciate, Grunge, Personal Taste

Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

- Mary MacLane

topic: Sex, Stupid, Two, Personal Taste, Poignant

The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

- John Cowper Powys

source: "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 170, 1929.

topic: Believe, Miracle, Culture, Personal Taste

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.

- William R. Brody

topic: Honesty, Real, Taste, Personal Taste

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

- Marc Maron

topic: People, Taste, Needs, Personal Taste

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

- Rick Moranis

topic: Taste, Lines, Film, Personal Taste

Hollywood, young or otherwise, is a very trend-driven town, and that can get a little out of hand at times. I just try to stay true to my own personal taste - incorporating my personality while not taking myself too seriously.

- Skylar Astin

source: "Q&A: Five Questions for Skylar Astin". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2013.

topic: Hands, Personality, Trying, Incorporating, Personal Taste

The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape leads us in the direction of disorder and death. They are categorically evil. These dispositions are destroying our only home-planet and other organisms that share it. They defeat our need to care about where we are and the things in place there. They prompt us to feel that civilization is not worth carrying on. They rob us of our identity and our will to live. These things are not about personal taste or style.

- James Howard Kunstler

source: Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

topic: Home, Civilization, Evil, Incoherence, Personal Taste

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

- Al Yankovic

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Decision, Taste, Parody, Personal Taste

'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as well. Man is shaped to a great extent by his surroundings. Our physical nature, our mental health, our culture and institutions, our opportunities for challenge and fulfillment, our very survival - all of these are directly related to and affected by the environment in which we live. They depend upon the continued healthy functioning of the natural systems of the Earth.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Men, Opportunity, Challenges, Personal Taste

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

- Peter Munk

topic: Taste, Transformation, Personal Taste

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

- Johan Lindeberg

topic: Intuition, Done, Taste, Personal Taste

Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.

- Ernest West Basden

topic: Art, Emotional, Careers, Personal Taste

For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.

- Ford Madox Ford

source: Ford Madox Ford (1938). “The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own”, p.11, Dalkey Archive Press

topic: Book, Voice, Judging, Personal Taste, Contemporary Literature

'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.

- James Hillman

topic: Mean, Class, Clothes, Personal Taste, Conventionality

My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

- Al Yankovic

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Song, Crazy, Long, Personal Taste