Rare Quotes

1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff. — Rick Springfield
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. — Baruch Spinoza
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost… — Baruch Spinoza
Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. — Neal Stephenson
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting. — David Ogden Stiers
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily… — James Surowiecki
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke… — Matthew Sweet
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison… — Hunter S. Thompson
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. — Hunter S. Thompson
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability… — Edward Thorndike
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. — Henry David Thoreau
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us. — Iyanla Vanzant
Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the… — Eddie Vedder
Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and… — Christopher Walken
It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time. — Sigourney Weaver
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real… — Vivienne Westwood
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. — Andrew Wiles
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more… — Andrew Wiles
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,… — A. N. Wilson
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and… — Tom Wolfe
To find people who don't want anything is rare. — Andrew Young
Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that… — Julian Baggini
It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury… — Regina Brett

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