I Prefer Quotes
810 I Prefer quotes by 675 unique authors
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
— Robert Wyatt
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
— Andrew Wyeth
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Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's…
— Donnie Yen
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I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.
— Keeley Hawes
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Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
— Ruth Rendell
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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines…
— Werner Herzog
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
— John Cage
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I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have…
— Isaac Asimov
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That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.
— Alan Moore
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I prefer men to cauliflowers
— Virginia Woolf
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding…
— Flann O'Brien
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I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round. "It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I…
— Margaret Haddix
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I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves…
— Molly Ivins
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Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?
— Pema Chodron
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
— Otto von Bismarck
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
— Oscar Wilde
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
— Alexandre Dumas
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I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
— Cornelia Funke
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful…
— Marguerite Duras
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Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that…
— Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
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I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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