Quotes of: Rather Keyword

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

John Sladek

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

Patrick Troughton

Porco Rosso: I'd rather be a pig than a fascist.

Porco Rosso

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

Christine McVie

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

Eric Heiden

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig von Mises

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Nikita Khrushchev

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

Robert Morgan

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Christy Turlington

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.

Emmanuel Jal

I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady.

Virginia Hey

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Mapother

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Franz Liszt

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

John C. Reilly

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

Jonathan Zittrain

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

Nigel Kennedy

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Sxip Shirey

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

Thurston Moore

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

Andrea Dworkin