You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!
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Ed Wood
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.
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Henry Adams
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Marshall McLuhan
It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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Salvador Dali
More Quotes By Samuel Butler
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
