Top 606 Prefer Quotes

I’ve played Madison Square Garden and Jones Beach several times, but I personally don’t enjoy those larger venues. I much prefer theater or a performance space.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

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 don’t know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

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

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

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

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

I prefer radio to television. Radio is a dialogue; television is a monologue. In radio, you have to interact – they put the words in your head; you build the pictures in your mind. To that extent, it is more engaging than television.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

I can play at full back on either side, but I prefer the central defensive position.

I think I prefer 3D to 2D now.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting – a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That’s the exception to the rule.

I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don’t like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.

Scientists – who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests – figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.

I’d prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don’t sing in the shower, maybe its because that’s the one time I don’t need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I’m just, you know, jibber jabber.

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

Women don’t like men who know they’re good looking. They’d much prefer a man who doesn’t know he’s good looking.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

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

I don’t like to look too ‘done’ – I prefer to look more natural.

I don’t much like Singapore. It’s very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

I can’t say that I wouldn’t prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it’s quite good to do a big one.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I prefer to do roles that I can relate to.

Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they’d prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they’d always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian.

I have to say, I’m good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I’ll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed – a little gift hutch, if you prefer.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them ‘oh, here’s what you should believe’ and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character’s arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you’re sort of powerless to what happens.

I prefer comfort rather than trendiness when it comes to clothes.

I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I think it’s fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

I loved every minute of working in wardrobe. But I love being an actress so much more. I don’t think I was very good in costume, so it’s better that I prefer being an actress.

On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words ‘James Bond’ again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it’s the only movie in the world that offers a British actor the chance of international recognition.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Sadly, I’m not a natural redhead. But, I prefer my red hair to my blonde hair.

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it’s not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they’ll do whatever it takes to be successful.

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

I prefer ordinary girls – you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn’t mean we are dating.

Although I am a public figure, I’m still a little shy. I don’t think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they’re not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it’s just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.

Many people repeat the past. I’m not interested. I prefer evolution.

I’m not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you’re not busy enough.