Quotes About Preference

Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depending how hungry he is.

Forced to chose between one irascible tyrant and another, Laura had chosen the one which was greater, and also further away.

Women do not usually write novels of the type favoured by men but men are known to write novels of the type favoured by women. Some people find this odd.

We use butter, I said. When we can get it. Or margarine. A lot of the time it's margarine. Butter, he said, musing. That's very clever. Butter. He laughed. I could have slapped him.

I don't know if I'm a bottom because it turns me on, or if I'm a bottom because I'm lazy.

The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to turn the pages.

Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black mustache, and I don't like black-haired gentlemen.

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

We have become so dependent on technology. I am not fond of technology myself, and I do not have a smart phone.

It could have been worse. He could have said he wasn't a 'dessert person' and then I would have been forced to jump out of a moving car.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

Time does not have the same appeal for every one

I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time.

This is a time where fashion and style go against what I would rather do myself. So I have to pick and choose from people that share my enthusiasm when it comes to certain things.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.