Rare Occurrence Quotes

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

... common sense is very rare.

Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.

I don't really have long days very often.

Phenomenons only happen once in a lifetime.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.

For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.

My wife and I have Olympic sex. Once every four years.

Who personally has ever witnessed a flag burning?

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.