Rather Quotes

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

Life should be great rather than long.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.