Rare Quotes

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.