Rare Quotes

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

It's rare that I actually have a story in my head. I have events or 'what's the next move?' Like, Maggie, 'where's she going to go in this story, where's she going to end up?' Then the story has to fill in the in-between, and that comes as I'm starting it.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

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

An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.