Flavor quotes
164 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."
"Not everyone likes all our flavors, but each flavor is someone's favorite."
"A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor."
"You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know."
"The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad."
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"For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know"
"Scientists say they're getting closer to developing a pill to replace exercising. Americans heard this and said that it better come in cool ranch flavor."
"Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks."
"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning."
"Tampa's crazy... The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen."
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
"Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence."
"There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city."
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
"Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life."
"And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience."
"If you could live in the moment, you would see the flavor of eternity and when you metabolize the experience of eternity, your body doesn't age."
"Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me."
"If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?"
"Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten."
"You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it."
"Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience."
"There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
"This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine."
"There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors."
