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Quotes About Preference

When I was twelve, my mother said to me, 'I've entered you for Marlborough and Repton. Which would you like to go to?' Both were famous Public Schools, but that was all I knew about them. 'Repton,' I said. 'I'll go to Repton.' It was an easier word to say than Marlborough. 'Very well,' my mother said. 'You shall go to Repton.
~ Roald Dahl
What do you think? More cheese? Less cheese? Different cheese?
~ Rob Thomas
He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.
~ Robert A. Caro
No one ever does anything but what he wants to do—'enjoys'—within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There's precious little choice." "There's always a choice! This one is a choice between 'bad' and 'worse—'which is a difference much more poignant than that between 'good' and 'better.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did not understand a thing: No! And Jubal readily admitted to himself that a long lifetime had left him completely and totally not understanding the basic problems of the Universe.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Almost all cigarette smokers, for instance, have a favorite brand and insist that they cannot be satisfied by any other brand. When blindfolded, however, they cannot distinguish this favorite brand from any other brand. They are not buying the cigarettes but buying the package. The same is true of most beer drinkers: they have a favorite brand, but cannot distinguish it from other brands when blindfolded.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
All the received truths of popular culture presume that successful love is rooted in shared interests. Dating services computerize preference, hobbies, vacations, and such so that they can match like with like.
~ Robert B. Parker
SUSAN AND PEARL and I were in bed together. I loved Pearl, but my preference had always been a ménage à deux. "At least she wasn't in here during," I said to Susan.
~ Robert B. Parker
One concept the non-old have trouble getting their minds around is the difference between taste and judgment. It's fine not to like almost anything, except maybe Al Green. That's taste, yours to do with as you please, critical deployment included. By comparison, judgment requires serious psychological calisthenics. But the fact that objectivity only comes naturally in math doesn't mean it can't be approximated in art.
~ Robert Christgau
Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.
~ Robert Ferrigno
Unos dicen que el mundo sucumbirá en el fuego. Otros que en el hielo. Por lo que yo he probado del deseo, estoy a favor de los que apuestan por el fuego. Pero si por dos veces el mundo pereciera, creo saber suficiente sobre el odio, como para saber que para la destrucción, el hielo también es grande y sería suficiente.
~ Robert Frost
Criminals strike close to home just as the average person chooses stores where he shops daily.
~ Robert Graysmith
I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it. It's very zingy, I agreed.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Anything, I eventually learned, is preferable to war; but that knowledge is something every man must learn for himself—usually at considerable expense.
~ Kenneth Roberts
The world was her oyster, except she didn't care for oysters. Better yet, the world was her raspberry. She liked raspberries.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Dia lebih memilih orang lain daripada kamu. Dia lebih memilih orang lain daripada kamu - Amir
~ Khaled Hosseini
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." Mariam gave a half smile. "It's a good saying.
~ Khaled Hosseini
people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The Chinese say its better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones.
~ Kim Harrison
She's not your type. Since when do I have a type?
~ Kim Harrison
Two grande lattes, double espresso, Italian blend," he said to the clerk. "Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Put a shot of raspberry in one for my itchy
~ Kim Harrison
Latte grande, double espresso, Italian blend. Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Whole milk. Put it in porcelain.
~ Kim Harrison