Rare Things Quotes

When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Excellent things are rare.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.