Famous quotes containing the words extremely rare, extremely and/or rare:
“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledgecriticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgmentthree qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.”
—James Thurber (18941961)