Quotes About Rare

Many of the most interesting phenomena that we have touched upon fall into this category, including the occurrence of disasters such as earthquakes, financial market crashes, and forest fires. All of these have fat-tail distributions with many more rare events, such as enormous earthquakes, large market crashes, and raging forest fires, than would have been predicted by assuming that they were random events following a classic Gaussian distribution.

Many are the gurus who rob the disciple of his wealth, but rare is the guru who removes the afflictions of the disciple.

He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

I sniffed. "What?" "The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.

let us not waste love, it is rare enough

Goodness appears to be both rare and hard to picture. It is perhaps most convincingly met with in simple people - inarticulate, unselfish mothers of large families - but these cases are also the least illuminating.

The latter was in praise of the virtuous wife, rarer than a pearl.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

It's a rare thing, graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired, but not, I think, the substance.

Albacore tuna has a mild flavor that's delicious served raw or seared briefly on the outside so that it's still rare on the inside.

I like tuna when there's a definite streak of deep pink in the middle, medium rare so to speak, and it comes out best when it's not cut too thick.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting Sonny, and after ordering our food, he turned to me and said, 'Adam, I read 'Mr. Peanut' in two days; every page surprised me, and that, I can assure you, doesn't happen often.'

America gave me the opportunity to open successful restaurants, start a TV show, and write books. I can even fill an auditorium when I give a speech, which in America is rare for a chef.

I'm like an actor who obnoxiously says he doesn't watch his own TV show. It is extremely rare for me to read my own comics and have asked publishers to please stop sending them to me.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

His blue eyes held a rare twinkle. "Oh goody. Another Marshall brother." He caught her hand. "Let's see. Ford beat me up. Wyatt nearly got me killed. Maybe Tate can get me arrested.