Rather Quotes

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

I would rather be right than President.

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.