Rarely Quotes

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

I'm rarely singing in English.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.