Quotes of: Preferred Keyword

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Bella Abzug

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

Bao Dai

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

I eat healthily because that's the way I prefer to eat, and I'm sure it helps keep the weight off.

Twiggy

I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.

Life

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

Vince Vaughn

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Wallace Stevens

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

Emma Thompson

Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does.

Laurie Helgoe

It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

Rufus Sewell

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Cold Days

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The Book of My Lives

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

Bartleby, the Scrivener

I don't pass judgment on anybody, but personally, I prefer a more natural look. I think it's helping my longevity in my career because I'm playing my age.

Andie MacDowell

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Keri Hilson

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

Robin Morgan

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

Om Puri

There are many ways to kill someone. I prefer laughter, and doing it slowly, over the course of 70 years or so.

$3.33

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Vladimir Nabokov

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

A Secret Affair