My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says 'Mummy keep the door open ' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

I like the desert for short periods of time from inside a car with the windows rolled up and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

The Queen of Crafts herself Martha Stewart and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha I have to share it with all of Martha.

The best book like the best speech will do it all - make us laugh think cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

It is our best work that God wants not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble.

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot I try to learn.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

I do not know which to prefer The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes The blackbird whistling Or just after.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money virtue before beauty the mind before the body then thou hast a wife a friend a companion a second self.

Oh I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

To play safe I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash the triumph of magic over the brute.

Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit you have tape balls on you you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair no makeup.

In my cranky old age I actually prefer recording alone now on 'The Simpsons ' for example because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times when I record with a group I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas this mania for control makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

I prefer younger men. In some ways they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.