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I think beauty has a lot to do with class. A bit of mystery. Rarity. -- Debby Ryan
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. -- Walter Bagehot
I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot. -- Robin Wright
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. -- Mary Astell
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. -- Martial
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. -- Apuleius
Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age. -- John Cotton
Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. -- Mark Twain
Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God. -- Tanith Lee
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts. -- Al Goldstein
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality. -- Tom Kimmel
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. -- Hannah Arendt
Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same. -- Horace
Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it -- Danielle Trussoni
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor... -- Charles Henry Mackintosh
Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been. -- John James Audubon
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny. -- Pauline Kael
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Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do. -- Jerry Cantrell
The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent. -- Pat Morita
In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities. -- Xavier Samuel
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest. -- Arlen Specter
Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity. -- Jaime Hernandez
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen. -- Dick Cavett
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days. -- Dick Schaap
Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history - James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy. -- MC Hammer
MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me. -- Rose George
I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous. -- Hedi Slimane
Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work. -- Michael Hastings
I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important. -- Julianne Moore
The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy. -- Laura Wasser
I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity. -- Suzi Quatro
When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right to allocate 15 telephone lines as a favor to those they deemed worthy. If you were lucky enough to be a wealthy businessman or an influential journalist, or a doctor or something, you might have a telephone. -- Shashi Tharoor
Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun! -- Thomas Hood
Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto. -- Michel de Montaigne
An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little. -- Caitlyn Paige
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future. -- Eddie Harris
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. -- David Hume

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