Quotes tagged ‘rare’

(18 total)

“We have a real connection. A rare and intense attachment.”

— Charlie Kaufman, Young Woman, Jessie Buckley, imdb.com

“You do not want the kid that has something nobody else has. To be the rare thing. Who's gonna care about the one?”

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

— Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, Tod Davies, Alex Cox, Raoul Duke, Johnny Depp, imdb.com

“Unless you are a murderer or a taxidermist, it is rare to have actual skeletons in your closet as opposed to metaphorical ones.”

— Tatiana Suarez-Pico, Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Patrick Warburton, imdb.com

“Comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly knows who he is.”

— Brian Buckner, Eddie, Stephen Root, imdb.com

“People generally think of forgiveness as the flip side of contrition, the obligatory response to an apology. It is not. To forgive is to answer the call of our better angels and bear our wounds as the cost of doing business. It is that rarest of things, simple and pure...transcendent... without stri…”

— Linda Burstyn, David Maples, Mary Shannon, Mary McCormack, imdb.com

“Hailey, oboists are a rare commodity these days. Strings, on the other hand, we're like hyenas fighting over the same dead animal.”

— Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola, Alex Timbers, Cynthia Taylor, Saffron Burrows, imdb.com

“Climax together, that’s as rare as Haley’s Comet.”

— Sam Shaw, Michelle Ashford, Dr. William Masters, Michael Sheen, imdb.com

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”

— Baruch Spinoza, amazon.com

“An individual who is afraid to go outdoors for fear of being hit by a meteorite is generally regarded as neurotic. Such worry is unreasonable, we think, because being hit by a meteorite, while quite possible, is an exceedingly rare event. Being struck by lightning is also rare, but it is more likely…”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“Having someone who is constant isn’t such a bad thing. In fact, it can be rare.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson, quotes.blognook.com

“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

— Jean de La Fontaine, goodreads.com

“Love is not rare. Unconditional love is.”

— Amy Shock, quotemadness.com

“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie and you know it.”

— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com

“Full Moon Friday. The second in July. For bad historical reasons we call it a "Blue Moon.” It’s not blue. It’s not even rare.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com