Preference Quotes

Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

I like control.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Less is not more. More is more.

I walk: I prefer walking.

I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.

I really do not want to carry some kind of party function.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

I prefer men to cauliflowers

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.

We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia

I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.