Top 100 I'd Rather Quotes
#1. I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.
Drew Carey
#2. I guess I'd rather live in a world where bad things happen for some reason than no reason.
Daniel Price
#3. It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I'd rather not go into it.
Molly Harper
#4. I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.
Mike Singletary
#5. Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak to my neighbours by smoke-signal.
A. Ashley Straker
#6. I'd rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day ... It's kind of boring when you take open shots
J. R. Smith
#7. I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.
Ana Monnar
#8. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#9. I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.
Clint Eastwood
#10. Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
Valerie Bertinelli
#11. I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.
Andy Warhol
#12. I'd rather have my nipples chewed of by a pack of wild dogs than go out with you, Tug.
K.J. Bell
#13. I'd rather deal with thick-face people rather than wasting time with two-faced ones.
Jhinang
#14. It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
Malcolm McDowell
#15. I stood up, and Evan pulled me in by my hips. "Then if we're just being honest," his words tickling my lips, "I'd rather-" "Really don't need to see that," Jared announced, walking out of the kitchen.
Rebecca Donovan
#16. No matter how hard it gets, I'd rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss
Chino XL
#17. I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.
Tommy Chong
#19. His and hers?" "No," he says. "I don't care which, but make sure there's no difference in the plates. I'd rather the chef not know which is mine." The waiter nods and disappears as I regard Naz curiously. "Why don't you want the chef to know?" "Because if he knows which is mine, he might poison it.
J.M. Darhower
#20. I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'
Ridley Scott
#21. I'd rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.
Neal Stephenson
#22. Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!
Diane Ackerman
#23. I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.
Elena Delle Donne
#24. I'd rather have a picture-perfect body than a million dollars in my pocket.
Robert Cheeke
#25. There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.
Garth Brooks
#26. If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm.
Ben Schnetzer
#27. I'd rather make all my secrets public than have an image based on gossip. I'd rather put it out there myself and control it.
Eve
#29. Whenever people annoy me beyond reason, I can guarantee it's because they're demonstrating something I'd rather not see in myself.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#30. I remembered some of it and some of the things that fell out of my mouth, like telling him his dick was the best treat and that I'd rather have it than chocolate. I mean, c'mob, I gave his dick a better rating than chocolate - who does that?
Amelia Hutchins
#31. There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.
Ron Cooper
#32. I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.
Henry Cavill
#33. I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
Robert Smith
#34. I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life.
Jennifer Lawrence
#35. After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Marcus Porcius Cato
#36. I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.
Phillip Phillips
#38. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell
#39. I would die for my country. But I'd rather kill for it. Ready your troops. We march!
Brian McClellan
#40. I'd rather have a career that utilizes my creativity, but torturing people all day long is not a bad gig. At least not for me.
Jarod Kintz
#41. We each have an appointment with death. I'd rather die for a cause than die of old age never having done something important.
Brenda Drake
#42. Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.
Jodi Picoult
#43. I can't just sit back and watch someone die. I'd rather die alongside them than do nothing.- Kirito
Reki Kawahara
#44. Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.
Jarvis Cocker
#45. I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.
John Green
#46. I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
Tony Benn
#47. I'd rather watch SpongeBob with with Kimmy than talk to you. At least that stupid yellow sponge tries to make sense.
Lora Leigh
#48. I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
Mads Mikkelsen
#49. Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.
Nate Berkus
#50. 'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.
Aidan Gillen
#51. I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything.
Raul Seixas
#52. I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that yields no heat.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#54. I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
Christian Louboutin
#55. I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'
John Burnside
#56. I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, 'Fly, Eagles Fly.'
Chris Christie
#57. I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you as fast as he can and lets you alone. The politician robs you and stands there and insists he did it for your own good.
Raymond C. Hoiles
#58. If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.
Bob Corker
#59. 'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
Emily Dickinson
#60. I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show
Jack Kerouac
#61. What it comes down to for me is that I'd rather us make bad decisions as a group, than to live in the absence of freedom.
Blake Crouch
#62. I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
Rand Paul
#63. You're green. Tell me you have the flu."
"No."
"The shoulder?"
"Yeah."
"Well, fuck me."
"I'd rather not.
Jill Shalvis
#64. I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#65. I can't let you die!" I sobbed.
"It'll be like I'm dead anyways without you. Since I left, that's what it's felt like - like some part of me died because I couldn't be with you, couldn't see you. I'd rather die knowing it was for your freedom.
D.T. Dyllin
#66. I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.
Amos Lee
#67. I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.
Janet Street-Porter
#68. I'd rather be an outcast than to be inside feeling like an outsider.
Peprah Boasiako
#69. Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman.
Casper Van Dien
#70. With his arms outstretched, nailed to the cross, Jesus was saying, "This is how valuable you are to me. I love you this much! I'd rather die than live without you." You are priceless.
Rick Warren
#72. I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
Jared Diamond
#73. I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd rather be with someone that's a skilled aerobatic pilot.
Janine Shepherd
#74. I'm actually not a big coffee fan, so I don't drink it that much. I'd rather have a green tea. But I do love to get a white mocha sometimes - it is just a strong order.
Emeraude Toubia
#75. I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.
Bill Dickey
#76. I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate.
Spike Jonze
#77. I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
John Lydon
#78. Since the day I met you, I've felt like I could fly. My heart is lighter and when I'm with you, there's no place else I'd rather be. Your beautiful smile and that feisty mouth have brought my dull world back to life.
K. Langston
#79. Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap.
Jhene Aiko
#80. I'd rather protect a living, breathing person I can touch than some shogun above the clouds I'll never see.
Hijikata Toshizo
#81. I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#82. He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In
Joyce Carol Oates
#84. I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.
Fuyumi Ono
#85. I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn't be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting 'character.'
Dick Dale
#86. I'd rather find out exactly why and when you two hooked up than think about this awfulness any longer, so let's talk about that on the ride back instead." Aaron's
Nora Sakavic
#87. I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
Jack London
#88. I'd rather be a lion for a few years, than a sheep my entire life.
Mike Bhangu
#89. I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
#90. I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
Jack Black
#91. It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
Maureen Corrigan
#92. I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy
Steve Jobs
#93. In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'
Alison Goldfrapp
#94. We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
Bob Rae
#95. I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
Paris Hilton
#96. I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.
Tom Felton
#97. I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.
James Hetfield
#98. Suspicion is healthy in our profession - but only to an extent. I'd rather trust my men than worry about what will happen if they turn on me." "That sounds foolish," Vin said. "Is happiness foolish?
Brandon Sanderson
#99. I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.
Laraine Day
#100. I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.
Rob Lowe
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