Rare Quotes - page 4

"This sucks on so many levels." - Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. (Roger Ebert)
And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare. View quote
John Dryden
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious. ... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. View quote
Tacitus
Too weird to live, to rare to die. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are. ... These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths... View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. View quote
Anaïs Nin
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo. View quote
Irene Dunne
It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character. View quote
Dinah Craik
Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy. (Robert Browning)
Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women. View quote
Camille Paglia
The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style. View quote
Camille Paglia
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble. View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
I would ask you to note that generalities concerning the intuition, and attempts to define it are very common, but that a real appreciation of it is rare. View quote
Alice Bailey
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed. View quote
Edith Wharton
Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. View quote
Neal Stephenson
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. (Lafcadio Hearn)
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me. View quote
Georg Brandes
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent. View quote
Joseph Roux
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American. View quote
Indro Montanelli