Top 1200 Rare Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows... that's very rare.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

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.

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

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.

Every year, you can depend on having at least a couple really exciting Nicole Kidman performances, and that's a rare thing.

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.

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.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

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.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.

It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare thing that anyone gets to do in any business.

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.

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.

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.

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

Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

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

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

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.

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?

I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.

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

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!

There will never be another 'Let's get ready to rumble,' so I see it as my duty to protect the phrase as I would a rare gem.

Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love.

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

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.

It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.

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

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

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

It's pretty rare to just talk to people who are having a tough time in the economy, to hear their individual stories.

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

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.

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.

It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

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.

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.

When you're a working actor you see a lot of scripts all the time, but to get to do something that's really well written it's a rare privilege.

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

It's really the rare creator who can tell you where he's going to end the season of 22 episodes. That's not bad. That's part of the creative exploration.

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

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

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.

One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.

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.