Rather Like Quotes

126 quotes by 114 authors

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. — Raquel Welch
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems,… — Aristotle
To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . .… — Pauline Gower
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing… — Italo Calvino
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. — Robertson Davies
Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right -… — Howard Hodgkin
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as… — Pierre Boulez
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to… — E. M. Forster
I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional. — Clive Anderson
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do… — Georgette Heyer
It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a… — Frank Borman
The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or… — Peter Higgs
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. — John Braine
I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman,… — Hayao Miyazaki
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in… — Eben Alexander
I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)],… — Diana Dors
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it… — Arnold Bennett
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and… — Faith Baldwin
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go. — B.F. Skinner

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