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Quotes About Preference

I'd say I am partial to women.
~ Bob Hoskins
I don't like to go to parties.
~ Courteney Cox
My partner has to have good sized bones.
~ Macklemore
My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.
~ Evangeline Lilly
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.
~ Will Oldham
Beh oui. Better sticky than burned.
~ Peter Mayle
I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
~ Peter O'Toole
Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).
~ Peter Scott
Seibel: Some people love Lisp syntax and some can't stand it. Why is that? Deutsch: Well, I can't speak for anyone else. But I can tell you why I don't want to work with Lisp syntax anymore. There are two reasons. Number one, and I alluded to this earlier, is that the older I've gotten, the more important it is to me that the density of information per square inch in front of my face is high. The density of information per square inch in infix languages is higher than in Lisp.
~ Peter Seibel
I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
~ Peter Tork
Call it perversity, if you like," he replied. "There is a flash in your eyes, like lightning, when you are angry. I have always preferred thunderstorms to calm, still days.
~ Petra Nash
I remember being asked at various stages last season "Would you take 17th place now?". Come the last game of the season, the answer was definitely yes. At the start of the season, then the answer was probably yes. But looking back at the season as a whole, then the answer is probably between yes and no.
~ Phil Brown
My only choice was between the disastrous and the unpalatable. A very German choice.
~ Philip Kerr
She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around.
~ Philip Kerr
Random conversations about brands are now more credible than targeted advertising campaigns. Social circles have become the main source of influence, overtaking external marketing communications and even personal preference. Customers tend to follow the lead of their peers when deciding which brand to choose. It is as if customers were protecting themselves from false brand claims and campaign trickeries by using their social circles to build a fortress.
~ Philip Kotler
It is up to the individual to choose the life they think best French
~ Philip Stokes
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.
~ Philip Yancey
But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.
~ Phillip Sington
Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.
~ Pierre Bourdieu
Je garde de la considération pour le personnage que j'ai été à ce moment-là. J'aime ce gribouille délicat qui préfère sa petite mare personnelle à la grande panade collective, et qui entre les cent millions de balles qui vont dorénavant siffler et miauler autour de lui prétend d'abord en choisir une, comme un bijou dans un écrin.
~ Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.
~ Jane Howard
I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.
~ Robert De Niro
I don't love L.A. It's a great place to visit; it's a great place to meet and work, but I don't want to live there.
~ Sarah Gadon
I love to visit New York, but Los Angeles, to me, is a great city.
~ Ben Howland