Quotes of: Preferences Keyword

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

Kiri Te Kanawa

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Ed Koch

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Michael Polanyi

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

Raina Telgemeier

Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word , and, on rare occasions, .

2666

When I go out to eat at restaurants, I don’t like chains. I prefer whips.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I rely on one thing in this world: my actions. I will leave nothing to chance and prefer playing the game of life with the strongest hand possible.

Adam's Apple

But... is sex the only way to know your preference? I thought it's more about who you fall in love with?

Adlao: The Hidden Tribe

Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.

HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

Ham on Rye

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Drinking coffee is like drinking an inverse yawn. I prefer mine with two spoonfuls of “I’m listening.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

Independent People

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Keeping Faith

Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence? I try to smile. What's the difference, really.

Kiss Me, Judas

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Killosophy

The man is an asshole." "You might say that, but you'd be maligning a part of the body that is of unquestioned utility. I prefer to think of Lugala as a tumor.

Ring of Swords

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

Silver Borne

I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art

She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.

Night and Day