Rarely Quotes

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

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

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.

I'm rarely wrong.

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.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.