#rather

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#come #ideas #matter #musical #musical ideas

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#foreign #foreign language #gets #language #mathematician

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it! ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#dignity #enough #exclamation #life #live

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food. ↗

— John Blair

#after #became #boring #broke #could

What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#bizarre #find #flaw #how #i

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#films #good #got #middle #more

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#equation #rather #recent #religion

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#capital #capital gains #chunk #country #fact

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#audiences #characters #effects #hoping #interested

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#been #came #charge #consent #friends