Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.
The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.
