#prefer

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle. ↗

— Jeff Smith

#arm #chinese #eating #except #i

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life. ↗

— Frank Stella

#given #i #life #like #me

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#big #collectively #i #individual #like

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#always #anybody #attitude #been #done

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#even #good #highs #i #keel

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#black #good #ideas #industry #like

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity. ↗

— Amy Weber

#bad girl #better #films #girl #give

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

— Scott Weiland

#could #i #myself #prefer #quirky

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. ↗

— Gary Becker

#because #efficient #fine #fines #imprisonment