My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing. — Irene Sharaff Copy Share Image
The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19… — Rick Yune Copy Share Image
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
When I first heard John Smith my attention was captured by his sweet, earthy voice and fine craftsmanship, but what drew me… — Tom Kimmel Copy Share Image
There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with… — Owen Gleiberman Copy Share Image
Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human… — Kodo Sawaki Copy Share Image
“That wind! ...it called to mind the small, scarce, stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half a day to pick,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us… — Daniel Lieberman Copy Share Image
“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
There are people who want to hear what they consider your hits. There are people who want you to experiment and explore… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare… — Ralph Strangis Copy Share Image
“To continue, I had to see the world with clear eyes, to focus on the essential. We only pay attention to rare… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Told you my soul was dying. Or maybe it simply belonged to other people. Either way, I needed a new one. Unfortunately,… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image