Rather Like Quotes

126 quotes by 114 authors

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. — David Hockney
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to.… — Baz Luhrmann
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence… — Henri Matisse
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and… — Vladimir Nabokov
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and… — Gary Oldman
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital. — Mary Quant
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. — J. B. Priestley
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life,… — Marjane Satrapi
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated. — Vikram Seth
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me… — Lewis Thomas
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. — P.G. Wodehouse
My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions.… — Thomas Ligotti
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,… — Albert Einstein
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. — C.S. Lewis
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. — Alan Bennett
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the… — Beverley Nichols
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat. — Dodie Smith
Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment.… — C.S. Lewis
She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was… — Robin McKinley

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