Extraordinary Quotations

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

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

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

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

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

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

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

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

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

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Being honest is what counts. To make the ordinary extraordinary is so much better than starting with the extraordinary.

The Color Of Extraordinary.

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

The extraordinary's the norm.

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

Sexuality and where it is going is an extraordinary question, for I don't see it going anywhere. It is with me, and that's it.

First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.

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.

The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.

Everything ordinary has the potential to be extraordinary.

You can be special without being extraordinary.

I think, when someone say, "When did you feel like an actor?" it's those moments when I feel like, "I'm an actor, wow." That's an extraordinary moment for me. So it's not like I walk around going, "I'm an actor."

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote this kind of American Shakespeare. But I played my part for four episodes, and the rest is history!

I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.

The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

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

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people...

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

We live in an extraordinary time

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

My father was an extraordinary man.

ordinary is the door for extraordinary.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.

I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.

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

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

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

What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?

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

Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

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

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.