Extraordinary Quotes

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.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

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.

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.

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.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

It is absolutely the central theme in my design philosophy - that life is erotic, period. The female body is one of the most extraordinary designs ever done in this universe.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Infinite possibilities exist to create the previously un-creatable, think the unthinkable and do the undoable-it's an extraordinary time to be alive.

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.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

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

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

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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

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.

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

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

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.

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.

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.

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

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

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.