“Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal. — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.” — Heather Lende Copy Share Image
I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Fool girl. An enemy isn’t always an enemy. Sometimes, in the rare moments, we can be the greatest ally.” — Tijan Copy Share Image
“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, 'No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
“I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“He was my sun, my moon, each planet, and stars. And those rare moments he wasn’t around, my body ached at his… — RaShelle Workman Copy Share Image
“It is one of those rare moments when we seem to forget everything, forget this insistence on living in the moment.” — Martin Roper Copy Share Image
I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“it may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and welcome. Nevertheless, there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“If you’d just told me you wanted her for yourself, I wouldn’t have opened my mouth. Asshole.” “He doesn’t want me for… — Dianne Duvall Copy Share Image
“Basil flushed and made a poor pass. He had been called by a nickname. It was a poor makeshift, but it was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I went during those days, the streets were filled with talk of the Mets. It was one of those rare moments… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Ordinary life rewards a practical, unintrospective outlook. There's too little time and too much fear for anything else. We let ourselves be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Home Cooking: The Comforts of Old Family Favorites." Easy. Baked macaroni and cheese with crunchy bread crumbs on top; simple mashed potatoes… — Jennie Shortridge Copy Share Image
“Sports are among the increasingly rare moments of totally unscripted television. The human element informs everything, in confounding and inconsistent ways. And… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“In the years since the disaster, I often think of my friend Arturo Nogueira, and the conversations we had in the mountains… — Nando Parrado Copy Share Image
“The eyes themselves were of that baffling protean gray which is never twice the same; which runs through many shades and colorings… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face that toils so close to stones is already stone… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Don’t look so grim. When you get home, I’m sure Randall will buy you all the rings you want. One for every… — Angie Frazier Copy Share Image
“... Sometimes -- in the rare moments when she wasn't causing quite serious mental discomfort -- being friends with Zoe was like… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
