Rather Quotes

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

Rather be dead than cool.

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

I'd rather be homesick than home.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single.

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

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