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 Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power...
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
