Quotes About Preference

I always enjoyed baking, but as far as eating, I always picked cheese fries over sweets.

I don't eat sweets. I'm not a big dessert guy.

I am a true desi girl when it comes to my food choices and Indian sweets are my favorite!

I'm not a runner. I do not like running. I love to swim. I love to surf. I do not like to run.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

I would swipe right for Varun Dhawan, and he knows that!

We all Tinder in life. We all look at somebody and go: 'OK, swipe right.'

I'm not in to the whole online dating-thing as a whole, so I'd swipe left on Tinder itself.

I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device.

Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought.

The Caribbean is great, but I also love the mountains as well. I'm a big skier, and I love spending time in Switzerland skiing. It really depends.

No one in Switzerland knows me as the Swiss Machine, and that's good, because I don't like it.

I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

I'm big into the PlayStation 2. From what I've heard, the Xbox is the better system, but I can't get used to that controller.

When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Hij dwingt zich tot het eten van zijn yoghurt, want regelmaat moet er zijn, maar halverwege ontdekt hij dat hij eigenlijk helemaal niet van yoghurt houdt en hij laat de rest staan.

The preference that cultures grant to themselves, in other words, must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference is inseparably bound up with the identity, the autonomy, the very existence of these cultures.

Wolfe fluttered a hand. "It was distasteful to me, having to offer to take the money direct from you instead of through Mr. Helmar, but I felt you merited that consideration. I'm glad you contemn it as blackmail, since I like to pretend that I earn at least a fraction of what I collect; but the offer stands until ten in the morning, should you decide that you prefer it to this hide-and-seek.

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.

No Comic Sans?

Obviamente me siento mucho más cerca de John Berger o de Calvino que de García Márquez.