Rarefied Quotes

#1. 'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.

Mark Morris

#2. Heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Kathryn Bigelow

#4. As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Simon Schama

#5. For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.

Jim Crace

#6. To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.

Dan Hill

#7. When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled.

Dorianne Laux

#8. Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

Charles Hazlewood

#9. Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.

Rory Kinnear

#11. What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

Paul Wellstone

#12. When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

Joan Van Ark

#13. When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.

Cornelia Parker

#14. I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Jean Paul

#15. I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

Harmony Korine

#16. I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Rita Mae Brown

#17. The older you get, the closer your loves are to the surface. She was breathing rarefied air, the ether you come upon at high altitudes. I understood finally how long-held grievances and petty smallnesses might get burned off, and pure creativity and humour remain.

Elizabeth Hay

#18. Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature.

Nikola Tesla

#19. To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

Florence King

#20. The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

John Ashbery

#21. The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Gus Van Sant

#22. You're born, you take shit

get out in the world, you take more shit

climb a little higher, take less shit.

till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like.

Welcome to the layer cake, son.

J.J. Connolly

#23. The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness.

Tim Dorsey

#24. But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313)

Malcolm Gladwell

#25. Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

Solange Knowles

#26. Had Fane done some Romanian voodoo on her? 'Cause she would so do some voodoo up on his ass if he did.

Quinn Loftis

#27. " ... Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy."

David Steindl-Rast

#28. Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

#29. Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

Penelope Cruz

#30. I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute.

Patricia Gaffney

#31. I love to read and you should read percy kackson & the olympians the last one the best

Rick Riordan

#32. It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.

Mo Ibrahim