Quotes About Rarity

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.

It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.

A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more than 50 years old.

I give a lot of shoes away, but there are some shoes that sometimes I'm like, I don't think they ever even released these. Sometimes, I don't know what they've released. But sometimes, friends of mine that work for Nike will visit and say, 'They never made these, so you need to hold on to these.'

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

I discovered later in life that there's not that many men with a counter-tenor vocal ability.

I think Lesnar is one of those rare beats that only come along every 15-20 years, even if that and he's just an animal.

In the wake of the British army's burning of the roughly 3,000 books belonging to Congress at Washington, Jefferson offered to sell the nation his own collection.42 There were 6,487 volumes in Jefferson's hands; in the words of the National Intelligencer, the library "for its selection, rarity and intrinsic value, is beyond all price."43,44 They formed the core of the new Library of Congress.

Un buon lettore è raro quanto un bravo scrittore.

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.

There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

What you need and what you want being perfectly aligned is a rare and wonderful thing.

Excellent things are rare.

The greatest value among the objects of human property, not only among precious stones, is due to the diamond, for a long time known only to kings and even to very few of these.

Yellow gold is plentiful compared to white-haired friends.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." Louisa May Alcott

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

No one wants to hear me doing my best Garrison Keillor... I think that he's inimitable; he's one in a billion.

Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Common sense is as rare as genius.