Extraordinary Quotes

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

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.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary.

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Make your lives extraordinary.

Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!

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

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

Make your world extraordinary! Step out into this world with confidence and treasure yourself.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.

Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.

As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Without adversity, the butterfly would never have the strength to achieve its destiny. It would never develop the strength to become something extraordinary.

I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.

I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.