Rather Quotes

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.