#rather

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#actually #hearing #interested #lot #memory

I rather like getting away from fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#fiction #getting #i #like #rather

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor. ↗

— George Byron

#box #emperor #i #nod #rather

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#exception #exceptional #geniuses #goodness #honor

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style. ↗

— Julie London

#anything #because #best #cut #everything

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction. ↗

— Christopher Love

#comforts #degree #ending #god #look

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#i #rather #want #write

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#band #i #rather #rehearse #tell

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#certain #hardly #important #important way #participated

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#just #more #myself #public #rather