Quotes of: Preferences Keyword

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

Erin Wasson

When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

F. W. de Klerk

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

Frederick Wiseman

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

George Bancroft

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

George W. Bush

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

G.K. Chesterton

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.

John Buford

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

David Mamet

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Desmond Tutu

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

Emily Browning

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

Evan Hunter

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

E. V. Lucas

Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style.

Georgia May Jagger

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

Helen Mirren

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

Joni Mitchell

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

Jose Serrano

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

Jeff Smith

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

Daisy Berkowitz

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

D.H. Lawrence

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

Joan Didion

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Joseph Epstein