Extraordinary Quotes

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative book.

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.