Rather Quotes

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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.

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.