Rather Quotes

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.