Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Alan Moore’s first choice to be the Comedian… was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
We imagine things – that we wouldn’t be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it. – Joan Didion
As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth. – Jeff Greenfield
To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula’s choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill. – Joanna Lumley
Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the government has to vote for us – there’s no other choice. – Isaac Herzog
Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process. – Julian Baggini
Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y’know, that’s tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea. – John Zorn
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in – and once you’ve chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center. – Jeff Bridges
The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. – John Lee Hooker
If you’re going to build something, don’t build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land – the land where all the people are – is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway). – John Battelle
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. – John Kenneth Galbraith
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. – Juliana Hatfield
At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice. – James Gleick
For the vast majority of those who are obese – those with a Body Mass Index over 30 – their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all. – John Ridley
Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn’t have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I’m a pure American – even more than people who are born here – because I did it by choice as an adult. – Jacques Pepin
If I’d had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, ‘You can either be a footballer or an actor,’ I’d have said: ‘Well, can’t I be a footballing actor?’ – Ian McShane
People who buy ‘The National Enquirer’ would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I’m absolutely serious. – Joseph Brodsky
We weren’t allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. – John Legend
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society. – Jacqueline Novogratz
I do like having my ears pierced, because there’s a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they’re a lot more comfortable to wear – Sometimes I completely forget I’ve got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them. – Jennifer Garner
Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out. – Ibrahim Babangida
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth. – Joseph Barbera
All the big powers they’ve silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. – Jack Kevorkian