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Rarely Quotes (page 14)

At the beginning of the day, when you're doing a show like this, you want to entertain and you want people to have a really fun time...but at the end of the day you want them to walk out feeling changed and taking something more away from it...and it's really kind of rare that you get to do that all in the same night. John Gallagher
Shah Ismail had fallen victim to the rarely used, great Uzbek anti-Shiite potato and sturgeon curse, which required quantities of potatoes and caviar which were not easy to amass, and a unity of purpose among the Sunni witches which was likewise difficult to achieve. Salman Rushdie
Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. Sarah Vowell
Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert. J. K. Rowling
Donna Tartt quote: "Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary...."
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. Donna Tartt
Anais Nin quote: "I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously."
I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. Anais Nin
Pat Conroy quote: "He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in..."
He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. Pat Conroy
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought? Ray Bradbury
I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick. .... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars?... Alice Cooper
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom Paul Auster
Oscar Wilde quote: "Truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
Maya Angelou quote: "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit..."
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
And mental states may be inferred from actions. The tyrant rarely sends a handwritten note requesting the elimination of an enemy. Julian Barnes
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. George R. R. Martin
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. Arthur Conan Doyle

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