#prefer

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #behind #being #big #down

I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#like #nervous #prefer #ties #wear

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#calling #email #girl #hanging #i

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. ↗

— Petrarch

#almost #begin #bounds #concerning #differ

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#bit #else #email #emails #everything

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

#compelled #evil #evils #good #greater

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. ↗

— Plautus

#criticism #even #i #insincere #much

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#audience #experience #i #i am #living

I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#game #i #just #mentally #prefer

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. ↗