#rather

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#because #better #engine #felt #get

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written. ↗

— Laura Wade

#dirty #i #joke #laugh #people

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#excellence #gift #lies #rather #than

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#attention #day #every #every day #founded

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#battle #brave #braver #bring #children

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#color #colors #earth #rather #ripeness

If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy. ↗

— Peta Wilson

#being #better #going #photo #rather

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. ↗

— George Whitefield

#darts #devil #discourse #feeling #fiery

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are. ↗

— Mae Whitman

#famous #how #people #rather #recognize

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal. ↗

— James Wolcott

#collections #detective #heads #into #labor