#rather

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. ↗

— Milton Berle

#been #cannot #far #has-been #i

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. ↗

— Frank Borman

#certainly #clouds #does #expanse #forbidding

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now. ↗

— David R. Brower

#atomic energy #committee #days #energy #having

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#life #poetry #production #rather #than

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie. ↗

— Emily VanCamp

#friends #good #good movie #home #i

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#rather #strive #value

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#chain #equal #exceptions #faith #hold

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos. ↗

— Jackie Gleason

#cosmos #creates #creations #creativity #dreaming

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#compositions #finds #go #hundreds #quality

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#diet #had #i #just #last