Quotes About Rarity

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.

But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a rarity in the industry. You'd think it happens all the time. It doesn't. There are so many hoops to jump through to get cast in something.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness.

I think of myself as rarity in the business, and one of the reasons is that I wrestled my entire career as a baby face.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity.

It's a rarity in this sport that you really get a guy that's not a good person. I think we've found that in Matt Hughes.

There will never be another 'Let's get ready to rumble,' so I see it as my duty to protect the phrase as I would a rare gem.

Initially it used to bother me that I wasn't working 365 days a year. But after a point I realised that the kind of work I want to do comes around rarely. And I would rather wait for it.

Finding a picture of me without makeup is like trying to get the last Gucci bag at Neiman Marcus: not gonna happen.

There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on you once in a lifetime.

There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.

O Aristotle! if you had had the advantage of being the freshest modern instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor,–that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?

At any one time the world has a very limited number of Steve Jobs or Winston Churchills or Thomas Watson the firsts. These are wonderful people and we can learn much from them, but praying for a few more of them to solve the world's problems is not a great idea.

After more than 40 years of living in the British countryside, any day I see a badger is precious. I knew the location of every sett in the woods around my childhood home, but rarely saw them with my own eyes.

Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman God ever created, and I think He creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a thousand years.

Talent sticks out like a sore thumb.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.

In a hundred years they may both be sciences. Fine. But today a person who learns the rules of art well is a little rarer than the person who learns the rules of science.