Rare Quotes

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.

Good writers are of necessity 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.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

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