Extraordinary Quotes

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.

An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.