#rare

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare. ↗

— John Lithgow

#directed #ducks #easy #good #good actors

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future. ↗

— Walter Lord

#events #future #guide #much #provide

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#because #careless #children #days #habitual

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#day #days #ever #june #perfect

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#concentrating #conversation #does #enhance #food

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#covered #day #had #hear #i

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #breathing #conversation #having #like

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#feeble #first #growth #living #mind

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#factory #important #ivory #rare #shapes

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#before #collision #here #i #just