Rarely Quotes

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

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

I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

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.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I rarely read children's books.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

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.

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.