Quotes About Rarity

But I was just really blown away that you could just buy a snow leopard. For me, it was like buying a panda bear or a Komodo dragon.

oddness or novelty (qualities which usually give value to anything)

I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.

She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were man as rare as Phoenix.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow.

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

Handbags are not important anymore," Connie admonished her. "It said so in Vogue. Right now it's all about having something no one else possesses. It's about the one of a kind. The unique.

We are difficult to come by and a danger to ourselves.

His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man.

Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir,' said Carrot 'What, in Ankh-Morpork?' 'Yes, sir.' 'We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value

The role of listeners has never been fully appreciated. However, it is well known that most people don't listen. They use the time when someone else is speaking to think of what they're going to say next. True Listeners have always been revered among oral cultures, and prized for their rarity value; bards and poets are ten a cow, but a good Listener is hard to find, or at least hard to find twice.

When one hears hoofbeats, medical students are taught, one must think of horses, not zebras. But the doctor who sees my blood count will surely think of horses. He will arrive at a perfectly logical conclusion. It will no occur to him that, this time, it is truly a zebra galloping by.

You don't see many Jon Jones's.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

When you get a chance to get a top five player, which doesn't come very often, you have to jump on it.

She's not that kind of girl, the endless string type. You get a shot at something like her once in a lifetime. And if you screw it up there's a special place in hell for you.

Moreover, if we could show, on general logical grounds, that the scientific quest is likely to succeed, one could not understand why anything like success has been so rare in the long history of human endeavours to know more about our world.

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

I know I am incapable of courage unless I have decided to give my life. Without that choice, there is nothing but flight. But you take such a decision on the spur of the moment and you cannot make it last for weeks and months. The mental effort is too great. Hence the rarity of true courage. We generally accept a kind of lame compromise between the destiny and the man, which reason rejects.

What I think you should consider...is the rarity of finding a playmate.

the college had proven especially disappointing on this front. There were smart people, yes. There were people with whom you might have a decent conversation for twenty minutes. But to find someone who you wanted to talk to for 609 hours—that was rare.

What I think you should consider," Alabaster said, "is the rarity of finding a playmate in either this world or the other world.

He knew that truly unusual minds were rare.