Rare Quotes
1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors
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To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film…
— Mick LaSalle
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Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more…
— Jeff Coffin
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It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a new recording every…
— Daniel Lanois
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
— Dana Fox
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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per…
— Hans Haacke
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I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being…
— William Jackson
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All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.
— Jim Sanborn
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As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor…
— Minnie Maddern Fiske
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
— Buzz Bissinger
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Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey…
— Hugh Ross
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If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in…
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the…
— Isaac Newton
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It's rare for a first lady to be running for president.
— Gwen Ifill
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The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not…
— Misty Copeland
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The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans,…
— James A. Michener
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Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as…
— Baltasar Gracian
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of…
— James Russell Lowell
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
— Eric Hoffer
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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde
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The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That…
— Alexander Smith
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Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are…
— May Sarton
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It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
— George Santayana
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Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future…
— Dalai Lama
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