Rather Like Quotes

126 quotes by 114 authors

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle
Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee. — Rory Bremner
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to… — Plutarch
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. — Louis Kronenberger
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years… — Margaret Mahy
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous… — J. B. Priestley
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one… — Francis Bacon
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger
The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by… — David Bainbridge
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest… — G. E. M. Anscombe
I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag. — Steven Morrissey
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine. — Benjamin Disraeli
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield
Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance! — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You… — Annie Lennox
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. — Barry Humphries
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes… — Christine Baranski
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of… — Herbert Marcuse
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a… — Roger Bannister
Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't… — William H. Calvin

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