Rather Quotes

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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… — Brian Clough
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. — Kurt Cobain
I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting… — Kurt Cobain
Rather be dead than cool. — Kurt Cobain
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing… — William Cobbett
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on… — Harlan Coben
For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided… — Jarvis Cocker
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. — Jean Cocteau
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for… — Dorothy Allison
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than… — Peter Abelard
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of… — Lascelles Abercrombie
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes… — Ian Anderson
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing. — Julie Andrews
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings,… — Maya Angelou
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like… — Maya Angelou
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes… — Francesca Annis
I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what… — Francesca Annis
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. — Susan B. Anthony
I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather… — Fiona Apple
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. — Thomas Aquinas

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