I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.”
“I prefer in knowing less and judging more because my life is not between the two poles of the earth, my life is in the unlimited universe”
“I prefer Independent music, in which we have control to our music.”
“I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.”
“I prefer intellect and charm. Good looks only take you so far.”
“I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.”
“I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.”
“I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating.”
“I prefer law to war under all circumstances.”
“I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.”
“I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
“I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.”
“I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.”
“I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing... I like to think before I speak (softly).”
“I prefer little hotpant-like shorts, but I wear thongs too.”
“I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.”
“I prefer love over sex.”
“I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.”
“I prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes and sometimes I combine them both when I really want the woodsy aroma from the lump charcoal and long, even heat from the briquettes.”
“I prefer making videos to making music.”
“I prefer male enemies to female ones; I can survive a dog’s bite better than a scorpion’s sting.”
“I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.”
“I prefer men to cauliflowers”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it kills them.”
Source: Notable American Women
“I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.”
“I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.”
“I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.”
“I prefer Ms. because it is similar to Mr. A man is Mr. whether married or not, a woman is Ms. whether married or not. So please teach Chizalum that in a truly just society, women should not be expected to make marriage-based changes that men are not expected to make. Here’s a nifty solution: Each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding, both husband and wife can hold hands and joyfully journey off to the municipal offices to change their passports, driver’s licenses, signatures, initials, bank accounts, etc.”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to "Air America," down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.”
“I prefer music that invents a universe.”
“I prefer music to think to, not drink to.”
Source: Tajrish
“I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.”
“I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.”
“I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.”
“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood."
"Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?"
"How else? Though not till I'm done reading.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“I prefer my Mexican food to have a little bit of an animal that suffered a little bit. That's some of the best food.”
“I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.”
“I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.”
“I prefer my water in wine form.”
Source: Divine By Mistake
“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”
“I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.”
“I prefer noodles when they're raw, they taste just as good, but reward you with a satisfying crunch...”
“I prefer not to eat food that has a face.”
“I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.”
“I prefer not to overthink things because I think if I did I would never end up releasing anything. I tend to just follow my instincts when it comes to imagery or whatever is inspiring me. I just fit it together in a weird way, and I have to let it go at some point or else I would hold onto it forever.”
“I prefer not to spend the majority of my life putting one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walking out of the places that I should have never put one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walking into.”
“I prefer not to use my past to gain sympathy or people,
I believe in present and try to stay in it for a better future.”
“I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.”