Rather Quotes

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.

I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful.

Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

She is elegant rather than belle.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.