Quotes of: Instead Keyword

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Carol Moseley Braun

[Politicans] are salespeople. Instead of rotisserie ovens they are selling this idea of preemptive war or social-security reforms.

Jon Stewart

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

David Blaine

The Universe has your back. Instead of trying to control the outcome, just enjoy the journey.

Dawn Gluskin

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

Jamie Dornan

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

James Garner

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

Sri Chinmoy

Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.

Ben Lovett

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

Bill Moyers

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Dale Carnegie

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

Joanna Lumley

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.

Paul Berg

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

Ricky Martin

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Robert Winston

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

Wallace Shawn

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

Zosia Mamet

Billy Maplewood: [sobbing] ... would you ever fuck me? Bill: No... I'd jerk off instead. [sobs]

Happiness

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.

Adrian Lyne

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

James J. Gibson