Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
Peter Tork

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
Edward Thorndike

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
Rick Springfield

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

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
Jacky Ickx

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.
Lauren Hutton

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.
William Jackson

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
Andrew Wiles

I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
Laura Prepon

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
Charles Schumer

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
Frank Knox

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
Jodie Foster

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
Germaine Greer

I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.
Stephen Collins

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.
Matthew Sweet