Rarely Quotes

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.

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.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

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.

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.

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.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I'm rarely wrong.

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.

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

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.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

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.