Rarely Quotes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

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.

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.

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.