Quotes About Preference

Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage.

Perhaps Court was just an ignorant Scot, but he preferred two things in his surgeons: that they be sober, and that they have lived long enough to have practiced on others before getting to him.

How do you know I don't take sugar?' I asked rebelliously. 'No gentleman takes sugar in black coffee. Besides, it's bad for you.

But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

A beautiful girl is much superior to a little yellow bird, and a boy—such as I was—far better than a Green Monkey.

Por mais sombria e cinzenta que seja nossa casa, nós, de carne e osso, a preferimos a qualquer outro lugar no mundo, por mais esplêndido que seja. Não há melhor lugar do que a nossa casa.

The sailor man had one meat leg and one hickory leg, and he often said the wooden one was the best of the two.

My relationship with sartorial news is only what I like.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.

Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.

How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.

I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not...

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them.

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.

Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's too crowded.