Top 606 Prefer Quotes

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

I personally prefer girls from the Midwest. They’re more appreciative. They haven’t been on 50 private jets and been to Dubai ‘every three weeks.

I’m one of the lucky actors in television. I don’t make a lot of big waves, but there’s constant activity, and that’s the way I prefer to live my life.

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

I’m not looking to… I’d like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I’d prefer to spend my time.

My mother’s very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn’t really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she’s angry, I prefer just my first name.

On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

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

If you’re into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into ‘The Good Wife.’ If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out ‘The Walking Dead.’ Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

I’m still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that’s the way I prefer to be.

I’ll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I’ll always be a feminist.

I don’t have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

I started out in summer stock, and that’s really what I prefer.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Suppose you endow a charity, or university. You could put your name on it, but you could also endow it in honor of some teacher you had. People differ. There are people who prefer to be anonymous in their giving, or to put somebody else’s name on it.

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

In England, it’s a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it’s much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

I prefer things nice and simple.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

In the end, I think people prefer the good to win rather than the bad.

I prefer social politics to politics.

I have no interest in feeling like a trophy. Money itself has never been attractive to me; instead, I prefer ambition and integrity.

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt ‘possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

I can’t find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it’s an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they’re required to not have abortions, could die and could – so I favor a woman’s right to choose.

If you ask an actor what he’d prefer to act on, he’d probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It’s just easier because you don’t have to imagine anything.

Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

I actually prefer playing as a left winger rather than a striker, but I just want to be very clear that I’m willing to play in either position.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I mean, I don’t really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley – grapple with it that way – but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

I don’t like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

You can find fine dining in Singapore but there’s also a wide spread of local dishes available. In Singapore, I prefer to try the local bites.

I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It’s very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they’ve always made it difficult for us.

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of ‘blue-collar working person.’ I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

I prefer speaking Croatian when I train.

I don’t like the word ‘perfectionist,’ because it’s self-flattering. It’s tooting your own horn and implies that you actually can achieve perfection. I prefer ‘particularist.’

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

I’m two-footed. I prefer to dribble with the left and shoot with the right.

I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

I haven’t had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that’s what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public – for me, it’s a secret, and I just want to work hard.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: ‘I’m an idiot, aren’t we all a bit like this, laugh at me.’ Whereas, a lot of other comedians are saying: ‘Aren’t I clever? You want to be me, aren’t I cool? Revere me.’ Which is fine. But that’s not my bag.

I prefer to be able to identify what I’m eating. I have to know.

I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

I prefer fact to fiction.

I prefer to surprise myself as I’m writing. I’m not interested in it if I already know where it’s going. So I have only the most general sense of what I’m doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

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

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.