Rather Quotes

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I love to work. It’s the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it – that’s the part I can’t really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that’s a political problem.

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won‘t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Actually, I have this random fear, and it’s of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I’d rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes… I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like that.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I think I’m dull. I would rather watch other people.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I’d rather be the person that’s like, ‘I messed up,’ than, ‘I wish I did that.’

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Don’t ask what it means or what it refers to. Don’t ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

I’ve had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn’t allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

I am very much looking forward to new adventures – including, I hope, Broadway – sooner rather than later.

We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

In ‘Notting Hill,’ I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

I’d rather be onstage with a pig – a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain’t going to happen.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.