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Quotes About Preference

I don't get to treat many lightsaber wounds. It's such an old weapon. People today prefer to fight with rifles and blasters, from long range." She shrugged. "I suppose it doesn't matter. Death is death, no matter the mechanism that is employed to beget it.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
There are chaps who don't care for them, you know. Simply can't abide them. Can't stand the sight of them, their titties and their big sit-upons
~ Alan Hollinghurst
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
~ Derek Walcott
I'd rather cut off my own balls with blunt bacon scissors than host a dinner party.
~ Derren Brown
In an earlier chapter I mentioned recent research which has shown that the preference for sweet and fruity odours falls off dramatically at puberty, when there is a shift in favour of flowery, oily and musky odours. The juvenile weakness for sweetness can be easily exploited, and frequently is.
~ Desmond Morris
Pale pink salmon is the only color I cannot abide––although, naturally, I adore pink. I love the pale Persion pinks of the little carnations of Provence and Schiaparelli's pink, the pink of the Incas…And though it's so vieux jeu I can hardly bear to repeat it––pink is the navy blue of India.
~ Diana Vreeland
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
In a deep sexy voice, she said Windows don't turn me on. I raised an eyebrow at her, Mac user?
~ Diane Mott Davidson
It is preferable that the wise man should set up his residence there where the crowd of imbeciles and fools it is the largest
~ Dio Chrysostom
Tako i po tome, u našoj Bolnici vladaju zakoni koji važe i van nje: vladaoci bez vrlina najomiljeniji su vladaoci. Svetina voli one koji vole ono što ona voli, koji ?ine sve što bi oni, dripci, ?inili kad bi bili na vlasti. Rulja mrzi pravdoljupce i istinoljupce, ljude koji poštuju zakone i rade pošteno.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
So if you want to loyalize a customer, try remembering some specific need or preference the customer has communicated to you in some way, and deliver on that need without having to be reminded.
~ Don Peppers
good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.
~ Donald J. Trump
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
~ Julian Barnes
There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.
~ Tom Robbins
Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.
~ Emma Watson
Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.
~ W. H. Davies
Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.
~ Mother Angelica
I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
~ Leni Riefenstahl
Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
~ Dakota Johnson
I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.
~ John Frankenheimer
Apparently there is a python magazine that is about computers, and a python magazine that's about really big snakes and if you get one you don't really want the other.
~ Jenny Colgan
I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice
~ Jenny Han