First Preference Quotes

#1. My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.

Adoniram Judson

#2. My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

John Steinbeck

#3. The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.

John Paul Stevens

#4. On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.

James Burrows

#5. Be happy or die.

Rob Cohen

#6. France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

Frank Wynne

#8. It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

Om Puri

#9. If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

Roger Moore

#10. All too often when we topple something hateful, rather than breaking it and starting afresh, we raise ourselves up in its place.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. Marriage is a sacred-commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

Charles Garfield

#13. People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Zig Ziglar

#14. For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

Joe Perry

#15. Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

Rose Tremain

#16. As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.

Matthew Perry

#17. My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

Michael Sheen

#18. Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

Zadie Smith

#19. If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

Martin Firrell

#20. The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli