Quotes About Preference

I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.

I have no problem with animals, I just like people more.

I probably played too much on the left for my liking - I'm not that kind of player who is going to get the ball and run past the full-back. Of course if it happens, you've got to do a job for the team, and no problem. But I feel better - and think you get more out of me - playing me through the middle.

he was glad that he'd never had to live near people who pushed paper for a living and weren't comfortable if the temperature at work wasn't exactly seventy-two degrees.

What really matters is what you like, not what you are like

This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's unforgivable. Two's a war crime. Can I fast-forward?

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.

How can it be bollocks to state a preference?" I ask. "If it's the wrong preference, it's bollocks.

Don't you like it [i.e. school]?... No. I hate it. Why? It doesn't suit me. I'm not a school sort of person. I'm the wrong personality type.

Ya sé que no debería gustarme esa canción, pero me gusta.

I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a TV program...All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over [insert popular contemporary TV program] next time you have a choice.

That to choose on Abraham, one Moses, one David, was also to reject all the others that might have been

He reached onto his hip for the new digital data phone Serena picked out for him yesterday.

Why would anyone want to do it on the floor when a bed was available? I'll tell you the truth: even sex on a beach seems to me to be going too far.

I've noticed that almost no one wants some fresh ground black pepper on his salad. Why they even bother asking is a mystery to me.

Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

He preferred the term study to office, as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn't a requirement.

You can have a coke since you never did learn to be civilized and drink coffee.

Look, pal, he who goes to the store buys what he damn well pleases. That's a new rule around here.

Ele sabia que preferia morrer a lutar com ela, do que viver me paz com qualquer outra pessoa.

She didn't listen to New Kids on the Block all the time and make girly eyes over them. That was a plus.

Saying you like Piano Man doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.