Rather Quotes

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

I'd much rather wear out than rust out.

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'm rather inclined to liking people.

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.