(662 quotes found)
“I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after”
Wallace Stevens
“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.”
Mary Worley Montagu
“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!”
Edward Abbey
“A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.”
William Orville Douglas
“In the matter of ideas the public prefer the cheap and nasty”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle.”
Peter Tosh
“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
David Hume
“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.”
Walter Lippmann
“I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.”
Jackson Pollock
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