There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.
I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments.
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.