Top 1200 Rare Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

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

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

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.

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

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

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

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

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

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.

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.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

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

In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

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

My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

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

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The source of inspiration can be any of the things:deep emotional experiences - say, romantic love or spiritual contemplation.I think such rare moments come only when you have total concentration. You are consumed in and by the music. I guess you could say that it is akin to contemplation. In order to reach this desirable state of mind you have to rise above the environment you're in at that particular time - a bad piano, glaring stage lights, or the attitude of the audience. Sometimes the inspiration of the other musicians you're playing with helps you reach this stage.

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

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

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

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

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

As an actor, it's very rare that you get a choice in a matter. But you're always looking for something that has some gravitas.

To be 29 and have a heart issue is very rare. Other than that, I had a clean bill of health.

Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.

I wear stuff I regret all the time. It's very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.

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

... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.

I do occasionally encounter a British business that delivers what and when, and for exactly the price, they promised. But commercial paragons in the U.K. are rare.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

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

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