Prefer Quotes

1738 Prefer quotes by 1359 unique authors

I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning… — Jacques Rivette
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. — Erik Larson
Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of… — Unknown Author
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel… — Richard Avedon
Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence… — William Makepeace Thackeray
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… — Peter L. Berger
But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the… — W. Eugene Smith
I always prefer photographing in available light â€“ or Rembrandt-light I like to call it â€“ so you get the natural modulations of the face.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry. — Carla Bruni
I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong — Paul Scholes
I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another. — Matthew Pearl
One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the… — Robert Hass
Weâ€™ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer… — Seth Godin
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word… — Henry Watson Fowler
I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I… — Larry Doby
Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it… — Lee Smolin
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… — Mordecai Richler
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is… — John Lennox
Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because… — Larry Wall

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