Rather Quotes · Page 23

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

— Quentin Blake

Like, I'd rather tour maybe six months out of the year, instead of nine.

— Adrianne Lenker

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

— Lykke Li

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

— Luise Rainer

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

— David H. Murdock

I like my food. I would rather be a little bit on the heavier side than too thin.

— Diana DeGarmo

I prefer comfort rather than trendiness when it comes to clothes.

— Hyun Bin

I'd rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie.

— Omar Sharif

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

— David Baker

Honestly, I'd rather hug than shake hands. I don't know where those hands have been!

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

— Maggie Smith

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

— Sydney Smith

I find it easier to tell someone what's in my head once it's on paper, rather than write with someone in mind.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or…

— Stephen J. Dubner

Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather…

— Mark Haddon

In a team situation, I think the players are more inclined to give the answer they believe the psychologist is looking for…

— Brian O'Driscoll

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and…

— Bruce Jackson

However vile the abuse they receive, media people must remember this is part of the price of getting a public voice. Stay…

— Rob Manuel

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes…

— Jason Isbell

Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place,…

— Greg MacGillivray

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you…

— Brian Celio

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and…

— Richard Dawkins

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled…

— George Will

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather…

— Ariana Grande

I'd rather be told the truth than a good lie.

— Tommy Pham

As parents, we tend to be in Tell rather than Listen mode.

— Julian Treasure

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

— Mary Oliver

I would rather not meddle in the domestic politics of the United States.

— Ayelet Shaked

Everybody would rather get a quick submission, a quick knockout.

— Robbie Lawler

I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.

— Charles Lindbergh

For those who are fighters rather than defeatists, a battle is over when it's impossible to win.

— Ana Kasparian

I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.

— Greg Boyle

Exceptional leaders don't impart just vision, rather they cultivate the emergence of vision.

— Sudha Murty

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than…

— Philipp Meyer

In our private lives, we hate saying sorry. I would rather saute my eyeballs in butter than admit I am wrong to…

— Katie Hopkins

The E-S theory does not stereotype. Rather, it seeks to explain why individuals are typical or atypical for their sex.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a…

— Alexander Calder

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self…

— Mohsin Hamid

Would I rather be on 'Saturday Night Live' or Snapchat? I'd rather be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

— Jason Nash

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

— Geraldine Brooks