Rare Occurrences Quotes

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

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 a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

Phenomenons only happen once in a lifetime.

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.

Great things happen only once.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.

SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

Treasure your exceptions.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

It's hard to see your dad once in a blue moon.

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

There's no reason to tweet when you are in the midst of a great moment; they are few and far between. So pay attention to it, as you probably won't see it again. You can always tweet later, if you're lucky enough to be part of history and you think 140 characters can do credit to someone like Martin Luther King or to the speech he made that day.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

You know, it actually can happen. I mean, the chances of it happening are very rare, but it can happen actually. Which is crazy. Not that it—the chances of it are, like, you know, it's like probably ‘pigs could fly.' Like, I don't think pigs could fly, but actually sharks could be stuck in tornados. There could be a sharknado.

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there's nothing funny about them, but they're rare, and they don't last all that long.