Rare Quotes

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

The American people have a right to know on the rare occasions in which their money is used to invest in private operations, if you will, take bets on capitalism, that is very well vetted, very well thought out and without political interference.

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.