Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

Adam Gopnik

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Anita Loos

Parliamentary obstructionism should be avoided. It is a weapon to be used in the rarest of the rare cases. Parliamentary accountability is as important as parliamentary debate. Both must coexist.

Arun Jaitley

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have type AB- blood, which is the rarest blood type. It's less than 1 percent of the whole population of the world, and it means that you don't have as many digestive enzymes.

Billy Bob Thornton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Charles Caleb Colton

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

David Harsanyi

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

Elizabeth Edwards

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

George Saintsbury

In my barrio, jobs work and money saves lives. When I have had the funds to place a gang member on a job site and pay his salary, I've seen him stop banging. When, on the rarest of occasions, an employer has offered a job to one of these youth, I've witnessed kids suddenly have a reason to get up in the morning.

Greg Boyle

I think Roald Dahl had the rarest combination of talking to kids about complex emotions, and he was able to show you that the world of kids was sophisticated, complex, and had a lot more darkness than adults ever want to remember.

Guillermo del Toro

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Henry David Thoreau

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Ike Skelton

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

James Broughton

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

James Lafferty

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Jean de la Bruyere

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Jef I. Richards

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

John Lahr