All Quotes

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
‐‐ Lionel Messi

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.
‐‐ Ray Harryhausen

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

I prefer to work with first-time directors.
‐‐ Jake Johnson

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.
‐‐ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
‐‐ Alex North

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.
‐‐ Dries van Noten

I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin - I like using cream blushers as well.
‐‐ Alexa Chung

I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.
‐‐ Keeley Hawes

I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.
‐‐ Anton Yelchin

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

I prefer working behind the camera.
‐‐ Terrence Malick

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
‐‐ Om Puri

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

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.
‐‐ Addison Timlin

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.
‐‐ James Fenton

I prefer writing originals.
‐‐ Tony Gilroy

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
‐‐ Ethel Merman

I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.
‐‐ Georgia May Jagger

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
‐‐ Mother Jones

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.
‐‐ Louise Gluck

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
‐‐ Peter Abelard

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
‐‐ Clive Granger

I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.
‐‐ Craig McDean

I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.
‐‐ Paul Sorvino

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
‐‐ Maria Callas

I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
‐‐ Bobby McFerrin

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.
‐‐ Nora Dunn

I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak.
‐‐ Godfried Danneels

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
‐‐ Luigi Pirandello

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
‐‐ Bob Graham

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
‐‐ Martin Short

I pretend something scary is in front of me.
‐‐ Heather O'Rourke

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
‐‐ Cary Grant

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was what I call 'wishful-thinking writing.' I grew up in the city and always wanted a horse, but there was no way I was getting a horse. So I wrote all these stories about kids who had horses. It's still fun entering these other worlds.
‐‐ Ellen Potter

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.
‐‐ Marie Rutkoski

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.
‐‐ Tommy Caldwell