#rather

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#because #day #easy #find #hunt

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#design #golf #hands #i #just

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#issues #journalists #leadership #pay #pay attention

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#accompanied #amass #art #been #caesar

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#expressing #feelings #his #illustrating #modern

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

#digging #garden #growing #how #like

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#deal #entire #i #like #movie

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. ↗

— Quintilian

#form #minds #must #our #rather

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. ↗

— Quintilian

#better #born #destruction #dumb #employ