Top 606 Rarely Quotes

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

I’ve never been a label-obsessed person. I indulge in shoes, but I rarely will ever buy full-price.

When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they’re very rarely the same.

‘Entourage’ is a great show, but it’s fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn’t look anything like that. ‘Big Bang’ reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws – all of them.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

There’s no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I’ve found it hard to read as much as I’d like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that’s a good feeling.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

Maybe almost 20 years ago, I was like, ‘God, I need to be more direct.’ And I found times that I could practice it when it was maybe not my family or friends or co-workers. It’s a quality that’s rarely disliked.

I very rarely listen to music in my car – a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I’m like a teenager.

I think a lot about the private emotions of black people – what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.

They’re people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes’ lives.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots – who provide specialized local navigation – when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

When you work in television, it’s an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

With a movie you’re creating from the beginning this particular work, let’s not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let’s just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

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.

Self-delusion is rarely a good strategy for effective management.

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.

The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

I love to sleep late, and I rarely have the chance to.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

I love that I’m rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

I had this chronic hyperactivity and an inability to focus, so I was forever being moved to another class, with a much smaller group of children – some of them about 18. If I was asked to read a paragraph, this white wall would go up in my head. Still now, I read very slowly and can rarely work out a tip.

I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn’t know what he was doing; I couldn’t see the tricks.

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.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don’t even have my story, really. My mother won’t tell me. She won’t tell me who my father is. She won’t tell me the story of my birth.

Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He’s so confident and extroverted, and I’m much more restrained and internal.

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 want authenticity. And rarely do actors – more specifically, black actors – get a chance to be authentic on film and television.

Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.

I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It’s documentary! But unfortunately, it’s rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors.

I do so much travelling in my work that my suitcase is always packed, with my passport ready. I rarely unpack, as I am constantly on the move.

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

I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was disappointing her if I got a bad grade. That had more power over me than teachers who told me I talked too much. That level of respect I had for her made me not want to fail for her.

The jokes I used to do on ‘Sex and the City’ were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

I rarely stay at home when I’m in New York. I’m always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who’s never even attempted to play it.

I’ve been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn’t bother me.

Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices.

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn’t fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.

The Saudi ideal of a woman is a religious mother who rarely ventures out: She shouldn’t work with men, she should be completely covered, and she shouldn’t go out alone to run errands.

I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first ‘Cursed Child’ preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase ‘audible gasps.’

If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.

Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.

There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.

I don’t listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it’s very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn’t have the best hooks on every track.