Jim Crace Quotes

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.

I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse. I like guys with scruffy beards and leather jackets, but I also like a clean-cut 'GQ'-type guy, so my tastes are very ranged among somebody who laughs at my dumb jokes, too. I have plenty of them.

I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself.

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

There are people who believe that a Dolce & Gabbana T-shirt is more stylish than a supermarket one, and there are people who believe the opposite. There is room for everyone.

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

We will have differences. Even in our own country we do not see everything alike. If we did, we would all want the same wife—and that would be a problem, wouldn't it!

I have a personality type, but it's not like I'm like, 'Oh yeah, short and brunette. That's what I like. All the time.'

My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable.

It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.

People are going to like what they like, and they're going to be vocal about what they don't like.

My wife has forced me to wear designer jeans, and I find... there must be two or three hundred different kinds of jeans you can wear, all of which are made out of denim and look roughly the same. People are different. They have different tastes, different bodies. Cellphones ought to be the same.

Every week someone rings me up wanting to open a new Messner museum, but I'm not interested.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.

Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

I like it that we all get to choose differently.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.