Personal Tastes Quotes

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

Personally, I've always liked movies about big diamonds, like 'Pink Panther' and 'The Thomas Crown Affair.' I've always found those films really interesting, and they have a good energy about them, which I like.

Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.

I like - not so much jewelry and that - but jackets, clothes, games as well.

Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

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.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

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

There are as many preferences as there are men.

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.

I don't listen to my own music at home.

There are some movies that I absolutely hate but someone else loves - people love things for different reasons.

I love scary movies.