103 Preference Quotes

I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.

Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

With respect to excellence of Style and Composition, it may perhaps be said that to practised ears the most pleasing Music is such as has the merit of novelty, added to refinement, and ingenious contrivance; and to the ignorant, such as is most familiar and common.

'I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.'

No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: 'A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!'

But I do nothing that I don't like, such as 'inventing' up to the arty or 'down' to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the really dangerous approach is the 'let's be artistic' attitude. I know that artistry just happens.

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification -- for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger -- chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

It is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.

My favorite food at the moment is Pasta, with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I mean...when you get the thin slices.

I've seen Austratlia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities ... will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I won't eat anything green. (Unknown)

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

I hate pretty looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.

I can almost listen to a whole Justin Timberlake song without cringing. I do get a bit bummed out when it comes to Ashlee Simpson though.

'Badgers can be choosers.'

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

However incumbent it may be on most of us to do our duty, there is, in spite of a thousand narrow dogmatisms, nothing in the world that anyone is under the least obligation to like - not even (one braces one's self to risk the declaration) a particular kind of writing.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

'Dan liever de lucht in.'

There's one of [Jean-Michel Basquiat's] paintings called Riding With Death. That's my favorite. (1995)

In conversation with Mona Bismarck and Gore Vidal, 'Mona said, 'Did you see Gore's new play The Best Man when you were in New York?' 'Of course not.'...'Don't like plays, only shows.' He meant musical comedies.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.

Of all the men I slept with in my studio-bed on Gay Street (and there were a lot: I stopped counting) I liked Bill Mangold the best. Until I began to see Philip Rahv.

I could eat my body weight in sushi.

A friend built a modern house and he suggested that Picasso too should have one built. But, said Picasso, of course not, I want an old house. Imagine, he said, if Michael Angelo would have been pleased if someone had given him a fine piece of Renaissance furniture, not at all.

Sunshine Sally and Peter Ustinov don't like the scene anyhow.

Oh, no, it's not dogs I don't like -- it's corgis. They get the blame for all the farts.

I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.

Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.

I see that luck resembles women: it prefers a young king than an old emperor.

Moonpies Rule!

Ted likes his meat dead, enough said

Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day! ~ Gioacchino Rossini