Top 1200 Rare Occasions Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

With all the stories that we have, it's still rare that we get to see what goes on in the minds of our children when they're in their own world.

We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Steve [Jobs] is unique. There aren't many clients that are like that. You have one guy that you really work for. That's very rare.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

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

When I played and got abused by another player, called a 'black so and so,' I always said 'that's out of order' but I tried to ignore it. I'd be thinking: 'You're not going to bring me down to that level.' But there were occasions when something was said and the next tackle went in a lot firmer.

Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.

It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.

I fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV. It's very rare that I see the end of any show.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.

That's something that's really rare and special and what any actor would love - to have somebody that's specifically writing for you.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.

It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

Wine represents to me sharing and good times and a celebration of life. It is always around happy occasions with family and friends and centered around joy. What better item to be involved in then something that represents all these wonderful things.

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

I grew up obsessively collecting Queen T-shirts and concert posters and rare U.K. imports of their CDs.

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

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.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.

Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare.

I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

There are certain things that we can deal with by following the rules. But at times, we find the rules restrict you from doing the right things. On such occasions, we have to rethink - either you change the rules or break the rules.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.