Top 1200 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

I always prefer to end a show where you're feeling creatively on top.

Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.

Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is "Yokel", but San Francisco is "City at Heart".

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.

I prefer playing tough teams. It's going to make me better.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

I prefer to stay with Likud. I think I have to be in the party I managed to build.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

People like you to be ordinary, but they prefer you if you're extraordinary. They want you to be a star.

Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say to humanity, 'Gentlemen, it is closing time.'

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

I'd much prefer to be at home with my family than go out.

It's irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It's all about what works for the team.

I prefer to be at home with my husband and children than attacked by photographers.

I prefer clothes with a waist rather than boxy shapes.

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

Personally, when I go to Tulum, I prefer to be near the action but not in the midst of it.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

I prefer intellect and charm. Good looks only take you so far.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.

I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.

What you hear and what the research shows is that gentlemen negotiate for their first job. Women do not negotiate from their first job and on. And I tell women there is no H.R. fairy godmother. There might be, but you better not count on it.

I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

I prefer unplugged forms of music any day to tech sounds.

I would prefer to be famous for something I did or built or achieved.

Actually, diamonds are a very common stone. I prefer emeralds.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

There isn't a Democrat in politics alive who does not know what the Obama presidency has meant for the Democrat Party around the country. They've lost 1,500 seats. The Democrats only have five states, ladies and gentlemen, where they control the governorship and the state legislature, only five!

My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

The one thing I'm absolutely tired of hearing is 'Republicans reaching across the aisle.' We need to step up and lead, ladies and gentlemen. I'm tired of reaching across the aisle.

[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they were shewing French gallantry to the natives' wives, who have murdered their servants destroyed their instruments and burnt their papers, the Gentlemen escaping narrowly themselves. What an ugly article this will make in a journal.

I don't mind cheese with a nice glass of port, but I prefer chocolate.

I prefer alkaline water. Good for the vocal cords, especially if you take it in the morning.

Maybe sometimes you are punished for honesty, but I always prefer to be honest.

I've never run with the bulls. I prefer to watch from the safety of a balcony.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.