Rare Quotes

1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away. — Ivan Sutherland
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression.… — Iannis Xenakis
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of… — G. M. Trevelyan
There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only… — Peter L. Berger
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for… — Robert Musil
Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice. — Bill Keller
There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist… — Edward Ruscha
And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images. — Maya Deren
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the… — Kevyn Aucoin
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real… — Jo Walton
After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can… — Billy Wilder
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet
There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China. — Deng Xiaoping
For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's… — Scarlett Thomas
An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in… — Charles Ives
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. — Peter Thiel
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a… — Sara Gruen
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in… — Murray Gell-Mann
The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's… — Carl Safina
In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a… — Arthur Koestler
We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by… — Blaise Pascal
I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the… — Dominick Dunne
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that… — Roger Scruton

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