41 Preferences Quotes

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because... it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really.

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

'I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.'

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Your favourite virtue ... Simplicity Your favourite virtue in man ... Strength Your favourite virtue in woman ... Weakness Your chief characteristic ... Singleness of purpose Your idea of happiness ... To fight Your idea of misery ... Submission The vice you excuse most ... Gullibility The vice you detest most ... Servility Your aversion ... Martin Tupper Favourite occupation ... Book-worming Favourite poet ... Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe Favourite prose-writer ... Diderot Favourite hero ... Spartacus, Kepler Favourite heroine ... Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust] Favourite flower ... Daphne Favourite colour ... Red Favourite name ... Laura, Jenny Favourite dish ... Fish Favourite maxim ... Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me] Favourite motto ... De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted].

It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers (Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest). Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers (Of course Some People like the city best)!

When you buy a box of Ritz crackers, on the back of the box, they have all these suggestions as to what to put on top of the Ritz. 'Try it with turkey and cheese. Try it with peanut butter.' But I like crackers man, that's why I bought it, 'cause I like crackers! I don't see a suggestion to put a Ritz on top of a Ritz. I didn't buy them because they're little edible plates! You've got no faith in the product itself.

Here's a little culinary confession: given all the wonderful 'gourmet' chocolates available in the world, my favorite chocolate confection remains a Hershey bar with almonds.. hands down.

I like a bush. A nice big, hairy, stinky, smelly fucking bush. And I hate when they put cologne on it. They dummy it up with cologne like you don't know where you are. I like that nice natural scent of salmon.

Kevin: If you had the choice to go out or go watch a movie what would you wanna do? Britney: I would go watch that movie and just drink at home.

My agent insisted that I get one. But I never answer it. I suppose I should keep it switched off, but it has such a pretty ring.

I don't believe you're leaving 'cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

My ideal girl should be smart, drug-free, and hot. People say it's not important, but it is...she can't hate me either.

I need 4 hot dogs with everything, one plain.

Yes I can, mate, I can take your awful CD out of the machine & throw it as far away from this studio as is humanly possible.' (Responding to the title of a Chris Isaak single, Can't Do A Thing To Stop Me, he was required to play when standing in for a sick colleague in 1993.)

I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers.

'I love women, I think they should be naked backstage all the time. I love looking at 'em'

I always wanted to have Mike Mazurki play Hammer... too bad he couldn't act.

Cooking aside, I am what you'd call a domestic slut. Cooking is really the only domestic activity I enjoy. I would do anything not to do the normal bits of household work - it's not one of my strong points.

One's moviegoing tastes and habits change - I still like in movies what I always liked but now, for example, I really want documentaries. After all the years of stale stupid acted-out stories, with less and less for me in them, I am desperate to know something, desperate for facts, for information, for faces of non-actors and for knowledge of how people live - for revelations, not for the little bits of show-business detail worked up for us by show-business minds who got them from the same movies we're tired of.

I like Dan Hanrahan's taste in women and so does he.

I wouldn't have wanted to date white guys before but they're killin' it right now, Justin Timberlake, Orlando Bloom, Paul Walker..Every hot guy I see is white

She had the audacity to order corn on the cob on the first date... so this woman is now out of my life.

Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

The greatest part about Playboy is the playmates' turn-ons and turn-offs. The turn-offs are always stuff like 'mean guys,' or maybe 'smokers.' But the turn-ons are always vague. They don't come right out and say 'nine-inch penis,' 'Bentley,' and 'owns a hotel or two.' Instead, they say stuff like 'good sense of humor' or 'likes music and walks on the beach.' Meanwhile, some guy who works on a loading dock thinks, 'I like the beach, I'm funny, and I love that music! We were made for each other!' Then he renews his subscription.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

[On the most beautiful words in the English language] The ones I like...are 'cheque' and 'enclosed.'

I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen' to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.