I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.”
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.”
“I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.”
“I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.”
“I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.”
“I prefer the company of animals. Four-legged creatures tend to make better companions than those with two, and dogs don't hold grudges or know how to hate.”
Source: Rock Paper Scissors
“I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.”
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
“I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.”
“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.”
“I prefer the delicate flavor profile in Criollo or Porcelana." She loved the Venezuela chocolate, which her mother had favored, too. It blended well with violet and bergamot, equally smooth flavors that created the lightest of delicacies.”
Source: The Chocolatier
“I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.”
“I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).”
Source: A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment
“I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.”
“I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.”
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
“I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.”
“I prefer the ground over the pedestal.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.”
“I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.”
“I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.”
Source: The substance of man
“I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies.”
Source: A Bed of Thorns and Roses
“I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.”
“I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.”
“I prefer the material woman.”
“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.”
“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”
“I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.”
“I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.”
“I prefer the old theaters because the audience is... trapped.”
“I prefer the pain of change to the bleak despair and silence of totalitarianism.”
Source: Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
“I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.”
Source: The testament of Gideon Mack
“I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.”
Source: Bossypants
“I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities... it is enough that I am surrounded by beauty.”
“I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty”
“I prefer the school of life.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.”
“I prefer the simpler reality, that the means to uplift the unfortunate are better controlled from the council chamber. A man can feed the hungry and clothe beggars all his life and not change the conditions that make them wretched.”
“I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.”
“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.”
“I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.”
“I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.”
“I prefer the still joy:
The wasp drinking at the edge of my cup;
A snake lifting its head;
A snail's music.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“I prefer the term ‘sexual deviant’ myself,” Saiman said.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.”
“I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude”
“I prefer the version of you that wears no mask or veil.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
“I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.”