Quotes About Preference

still I cannot see why, in making a version of (say) Theocritus, one should not use by way of preference those names by which he invariably called them, and which are characteristic of him: why, in turning a Greek author into English, we should begin by turning all the proper names into Latin.

Did you hear about the fellow who returned a shirt to the clothing store and told the salesman, "After I got home, I realized that I don't like this shirt. I just liked the song that was playing in the store when I bought it.

A cat can be great company if you're a cat person. If you're not, well, let's just say that you shouldn't go there.

Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol, I take it for granted

I like very strong guys. Successful guys. Not necessarily financially.

I don't have any tatts. If there's something one day that catches my attention, I might consider it. But on my neck? I don't know. I don't like anybody that much.

I love turtlenecks; they are very chic, but I don't wear them very often because it bothers me to have something around the neck.

Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'

Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.

It's heretical, I know, but I've never really been able to get on with Agatha Christie. She is, of course, a giant of the genre, but I never feel that she cared a great deal about the characters. Consequently, neither do I.

Dre says it gets on his nerves when I try to rap. He'd rather have me sing.

I don't want to have lunch with a sultan. I would rather watch Netflix.

There's a bit of a problem. The script that I like, the network doesn't like. The script that they like, I don't like.

I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.

I do know that I would never - though you should never say never - work with a decorator, because I don't want to see the touch of someone else in my own space.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

The public doesn't want new music.

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to adapt to new things.

People essentially like local news better than network news.

Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.