Rather Quotes

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I'd rather have ten people who are mad for it than ten thousand who aren't.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

I'd rather win than be a showman.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

A new 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.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.