Quotes About Rarity

A rare bird on earth, comparable to a black swan.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

Some people waste their smiles by using them too often. Not Patrick. He rarely smiled—but when he did, his face shone like the sun after rain.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

People will take you for granted, then realize you were rare.

I will baptise her, he said. You have walked a long way for something you believe in. In our day that is rare. People seldom walk long distances for their faith. That's why the world looks the way it does.

If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things

I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion - a phenomenon so rare that I would walk any day ten miles to observe it.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing--mores the pity.

But for women - and, yes, this is strictly applicable to females - grey hair is still a rarity, especially if you're in the public eye.

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

How do you find a better actor than Michael McKean? How do you find someone who's just that good? They don't grow on trees. Plus, he's a pleasure to work with, pleasure to be around.

An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little.

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

The pre-attentional parts of the self use a complicated analytic process to determine relevance. They weigh a large variety of factors to gauge relevance; this includes such things as the intensity of the sensory inflow, its novelty, the degree of contrast between a sensory stimulus and its sensory background, and its rarity.

Here's to us. Who's like us? Damn few.

Not everybody gets a home slam; not everybody gets home events. I am part of a very select few who get that opportunity, so I can only really be grateful for that.

I think I would have one favourite jacket, one favourite pair of sneakers - like, from every kind of thing I do have my favourite - but they're often the things I wear the least because I just want to keep them nice, so I don't really tend to wear them as much.