Rare Quotes - page 6

If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era. (Hayao Miyazaki)
I confess to a rare problem-gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me-but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day. View quote
Bill Mollison
I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. View quote
Kate Bush
A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization. View quote
Karen Horney
It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2, the somewhat-muddled but still entertaining return of Bruce Willis' John McClane. Fortunately, the original Die Hard was good enough that there's room for the second installment to be enjoyable while still not matching the pace or possessing the flair of its predecessor. View quote
James Berardinelli
Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide. View quote
James Berardinelli
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. View quote
Mark Twain
Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare. View quote
Mark Twain
Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of "what if” when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized. View quote
Craig Ferguson
The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there. View quote
Antonín Dvořák
In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed. (Thorstein Veblen)
I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. View quote
Emma Goldman
White ravens are rare. View quote
Halldór Laxness
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler, and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people. View quote
Ben Stein
Wanting to work is so rare a want that it should be encouraged. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance. View quote
Mark Haddon
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. (Matt Groening)
Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. "Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow. View quote
Rick Riordan
I don't leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments. View quote
Rick Riordan
It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors. View quote
Andrew Weil
Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants. View quote
Richard Preston