Prefer Quotes

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.