Extraordinary Quotes

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Everything ordinary has the potential to be extraordinary.

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

I want to do something extraordinary, not just make a tackle. I want to make people's eyes widen, like, 'God, you see that?

All my life people have called me gifted. Extraordinary. Blessed. I had all these dreams to become something. Someone. No one ever said I couldn't. No one ever said Killer.

I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

For me to see the film [Dream of Life] on a big screen - it's pretty extraordinary.

I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate.

I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.

President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.

President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.

As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.

The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

I have called President Obama, and President Obama called me on various issues. This is part of our regular contacts, there is nothing unusual or extraordinary about it.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.