(481 quotes found)
“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.”
Christina Aguilera
“Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.”
Anthony Burgess
“All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what”
Chuang Tzu
“I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.”
Lord of The Rings
“Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing”
James Harvey Robinson
“Now they talk on the radio about the record set by Ruth, and DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.”
Roger Maris
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform”
William Penn
“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence”
Maurice Maeterlinck
“I am rarely there when things get broken, but I am always there when they get fixed.”
Gerard Patrick Roeling