#rather

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#comes #kindness #popularity #rather #stupidity

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #died #family #general #husband

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#discriminate #rather #sex #simple #title

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#characters #exterior #films #i #interior

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#day #get #i #job #much

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#cuisine #new #new orleans #orleans #rather

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alone #always #anything #difficult #guess

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #anchored #any #die #here