Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.

As roles go, very rarely do you get a role written for you or a director who wants you and only you for the part.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

All I'm saying is that I rarely find myself pointing to Sean Penn's love life thinking, 'I want to be like that.'

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.

Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.

Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

Defensively, from a team standpoint, I didn't feel I played very well. Very rarely was I satisfied with how I played.

Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.

People ask me if they can send me material, and some people give or send it to me unsolicited, but I rarely buy jokes.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

I shampoo and condition with Kerastase products but rarely brush it because I'm all about the Kate Moss bed-head look.

Merlin is the unsung hero who is often responsible for things turning out positively, but rarely gets credit for that.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.

If not for my mom, I wouldn't be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

Ever since having kids, napping is something that I'm prone to do and very easily could do but rarely get the chance to.

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