Rather Quotes

I love playing. In lots of ways, I think having been able to carry on playing purely out of love rather than having to do it for a living means I still love the drums.

Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.

We would rather be feared than respected.

I’d rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

I’m glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism.

Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.