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Quotes About Rarity

It's really rare in TV not to think, 'Well, I've seen a version of this before.'
~ Gemma Chan
We're brought up to believe in a fairytale-romance sort of way that true love is out there and true loves don't care about what you look like and stuff, just what's down inside. And that's probably true, but what's also true, sadly, is that true loves are very rare and very hard to find.
~ Mark Waid
It is very hard to find a good defender who is strong and good with the ball. Very hard.
~ Paolo Maldini
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
~ Rene Descartes
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thoughts; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. They would make my fortune if I could catch them; but always the rarest, those freaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Girls like her are a dime a dozen, and I happen to have a pocket full of dimes.
~ Lois Duncan
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.
~ Lord Byron
An honest man is a rare treasure.
~ Jim Butcher
What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
~ Jodi Picoult
Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees
~ Jodi Picoult
The best people seldom give you the best advice.
~ Unknown
Good but rarely came from good advice.
~ Lord Byron
A good man is hard to find so when you get a half decent one don't screw it up.
~ Unknown
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
~ Mark Twain
She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.
~ Unknown
Painting a picture is as difficult as finding a large or a small diamond. Now, however, whereas everybody recognizes the value of a louis d'or or a pure pearl, those who cherish pictures and believe in them are unfortunately rare. But they exist nonetheless.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Common sense is quite rare.
~ Voltaire
Common sense is not so common.
~ Voltaire
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
~ W.H. Auden
We didn't want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive. It's very rare to be able to do that. It's completely pure.
~ Julie Delpy
I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.
~ Regina King
It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.
~ Nicole Kidman
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.
~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy