Quotes About Preferences

Women curl up with books, guys stretch out

Roughly 5.3 million people watched the first episode of The Walking Dead on AMC, a stunning 83 percent more than the 2.9 million who watched the season four premiere of Mad Men. This means there are at least 2.4 million cable-ready Americans who would prefer watching Christina Hendricks if she were an animated corpse.

None of that data, however, actually tells you why customers make the choices that they do.

Not only the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but Wise potato chips and Utz, Little Debbie's and Hostess. Duron and the Hechinger store brand of spray paint.

I like it when people know my preferences up front and shape the world to my liking. It's the perfect thing the morning after a gunshot wound." She

If producers knew not only what consumers want now, but what they will want in the future, their job would be pretty easy.

There are some foods some people just don't like. I just don't like movies. People tell me, don't you care what they've done to your book? I tell them, they haven't done anything to my book. It's right there on the shelf.

My tastes have always been pretty cheesy. I like Def Leppard. At the same time, my tastes might be pretty universal. I don't know.

I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.

Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

Men have to recognize that women are not all the same when it comes to what can get them aroused.

Most books are bought by women.

Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

I was listening to radio and it plays only Bollywood. This is something I hate about radio stations. There's so much other beautiful music out there.

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

We weren't big 'Notebook' fans or anything.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.