All Quotes

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise!
‐‐ Dita Von Teese

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
‐‐ Abbas Kiarostami

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
‐‐ Juan Gris

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
‐‐ Anatole France

I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.
‐‐ Skrillex

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
‐‐ Robert Wyatt

I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.
‐‐ Benjamin Cohen

I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine - it hurts my eyes. When I used to live in more communal circumstances, I had to wait until everyone had gone to bed before I had the peace to write, and I still find I can get on with my writing much better at night.
‐‐ Martin Millar

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
‐‐ Orson Welles

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.
‐‐ Jerry Seinfeld

I prefer the path of peace over war.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire

I prefer the paycheck of television and the experience of theater.
‐‐ Deirdre Lovejoy

I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.
‐‐ Max Apple

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
‐‐ Rick Allen

I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
‐‐ Keenen Ivory Wayans

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.
‐‐ Julie London

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
‐‐ Bella Abzug

I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.
‐‐ Jason Silva

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.
‐‐ Condola Rashad

I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.
‐‐ Amanda Plummer

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.
‐‐ Richard Briers

I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.
‐‐ Sheridan Smith

I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.
‐‐ Cecile de France

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

I prefer to be a mother in the Pacific Northwest! I grew up outside of Seattle and personally find it to be the most beautiful place in the world.
‐‐ Josie Bissett

I prefer to be a private person.
‐‐ Huma Abedin

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating. I have to know.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

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

I prefer to be covered. I don't wear a lot of low-cut things. I'd rather keep the attention to my brain, my face.
‐‐ Sarah Hay

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
‐‐ Tom Hollander

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot strike and my breathing. It can be quite soothing.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.
‐‐ Diane Nelson

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.
‐‐ James Gunn

I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.
‐‐ John Malkovich

I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
‐‐ Nate Ruess