#rarely

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#advance #assure #disappoint #doomed #failure

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#drawback #each #once #only #other

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children. ↗

— Robert Benton

#america #being #care #children #close

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home. ↗

— Hope Davis

#home #i #new #new yorker #rarely

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. ↗

— Julie Christie

#exists #happiness #i #i think #interesting

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. ↗

— James Cook

#due #gifted #musicians #rarely #received

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

— Ricky Gervais

#joke #people #rarely #same #subject

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place. ↗

— Red Grange

#case #college #get #goes #his

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax. ↗

— Seth Green

#cell #cell phone #e-mail #fax #i