(665 quotes found)
“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its paws”
Charles Baudelaire
“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 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
“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.”
Walter Lippmann
“To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
Michael Oakeshott
“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
David Hume
“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.”
Mary Worley Montagu
“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
“I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical."”
Ivan Boesky
