Rather Quotes

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

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.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I'd rather make music than tour.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.