Quotes of: Preferences Keyword

These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

Yotam Ottolenghi

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Boris Spassky

I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

Kailash Kher

But into the first decades of the twentieth century, even at the New York Times, it was uncommon for journalists to see a sharp divide between facts and values. Yet the belief in objectivity is just this: the belief that one can and should separate f...

Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers

He'd kept his figure despite being past his first youth. Pretty good for nearly forty. Who was she fooling? She knew quite well that he was thirty-five and a half, exactly five years older than she. Their birthdays were two days apart. It was absurd ...

The Second Seduction of a Lady

Nora sobered and turned back to the windows, her breath fogging the glass. "We may as well lay some ground rules if we're going to be stuck here for a few days." "Okay." "You can keep the bed, I prefer the sofa. I don't cook. I'm not a maid, so pick ...

Taking Chances

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also negating his love for anyone else. In that one act by...

Fulton J. Sheen

Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess…responsiveness.

To Command and Collar

I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies.

A Bed of Thorns and Roses

You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.

Carine Roitfeld

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

Walter Kirn

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

Bill Viola

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

Craig Brown

I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.

Skybreaker

The gods preferring their libations diluted with rainwater and mixed with freshly cut grass.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

A Passage to India

Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer.

Perfect Peace

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

Adam Sandler

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

Dalton Trumbo

I curl up inside and freeze when I have to act. I much prefer sitting on the sidelines and trying to get the best out of other people.

Mel Ferrer

So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

The Art of War