I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't taste it there. But salmon? No, no, no.
The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
If you come to The Kitchen and get a pork chop with polenta, which is our kind of food - simple - there is only one way it should taste at The Kitchen.
Shock always sells. You know? But you could shock in good taste.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
Independent booksellers tend to have good taste and big mouths.
I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
I have classic and feminine taste. I'm definitely drawn to vintage-inspired and ladylike things. I like an accentuated waist, and a strong shoulder works well with my figure.
The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples.
I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'
There's no common taste in this world.
On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.
I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
