Top 1200 Rare Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's rare when suddenly a window opens up, and you see a side of a celebrity you've never seen before, good or bad.

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

I find the Aussies are great and just let you be. The odd time, somebody has something smart to say, but it's very rare.

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.

I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor. Two crazy people in one house would be too much. It's better there's one crazy person, and one nice person who looks after that crazy person.

It's a great feeling to have genuine friends who I have known since high school. It's kind of rare, actually, and I love it.

It's very rare you get a director who's that invested in the actors. So yeah, when 'Little Fish' came around, there wasn't much negotiation!

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.

It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.

Albacore tuna has a mild flavor that's delicious served raw or seared briefly on the outside so that it's still rare on the inside.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

It is very rare that he makes a mistake, and I feel just privileged to have done what I have with him. There will never be another Valegro.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

It's very rare for the Internet to have a successful narrative show like 'MyMusic.' It's really a case study for what is the future of the sitcom.

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

As an actor, you are always looking for something different and challenging... 'High Priestess' gave me that rare opportunity.

In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.

It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

I'm always producing with the idea that the music is representing one person. That could play a factor in the intimacy of it. I'm always producing for that one person, never for a group of people - especially if it's non-danceable. I'm always thinking that one person's going to listen to this and that person might want to feel a certain way at a certain time. That can be out in space, it can be at the bus stop, it can be laying in bed listening to music. I look at it as if I'm whispering in someone's ear, basically.

It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so good.

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.

This is a once in a lifetime event. It is very rare to remove 86% of the currency in circulation in one go. The logistics of such an operation are mammoth.

I'm not naive - I think it's rare in the NBA every day to actually be able to enjoy being around the people you're working with.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

I feel like I have a rare skill-set with my quickness and my size. It kind of throws people off. It's deceptive with my speed.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.

When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!

If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.

I find it funny how at British festivals there are such inflated egos. It's rare that I even talk to anyone at a lot of them.

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.

Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?