Quotes About Preference

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

She never sounded pleased about beef noodle casserole or chicken à la king, either, but she did seem to perk up at pork chops and ham. I guess she was a pig girl.

You prefer her faults to other people's perfection.

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?

Because, I imagine, there must be only a very, very few men in the world that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.

Their tastes change not because their palates improve but because they deteriorate.

She wants to have hiked; I want to have had dessert.

fine, peanut butter and jelly were fine if your parents understood the jelly/jam issue. Grape jelly was best, by Jar, a nice slippery comforting sugary petroleum-product grape. Strawberry jam was second; everything else was iffy. Take raspberry, for instance—

but she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not.

Walter and I are very fond of some children, but not across the board, not as a species. No

flossing his teeth. He couldn't go to bed without flossing his teeth. For some reason, Sarah had found this irritating. If Macon were condemned to death, she'd said once, and they told him he'd be executed by firing squad at dawn, he would no doubt still insist on flossing the night before. Macon, after thinking it over, had agreed.

The expressway would have been smoother, not to mention faster, but her father didn't like merging.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

It may be unpleasant, but it's preferable to getting killed.

Faced with an infinite number of choices, many people pick the market leader.

Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord's Favour to such a stringent, conclusive test.

In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer!

We brought up our sons to 'eat everything', but their mixed genetic inheritance prevailed: one twin took to meat-eating with relish, while the other, at age seven, with no persuasion whatsoever from his father, turned staunchly vegetarian.