Extraordinary Quotes · Page 44

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

— Seneca the Younger

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I…

— Joshua Ferris

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

— Marlon Brando

When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could…

— Peter Senge

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the…

— Gordon S. Wood

Too many people say they want someone extraordinary in their lives but they aren't extraordinary themselves.

— Matthew Hussey

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

— Grant Shapps

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People hear from Donald Trump that he's such an extraordinary success. They didn't know about Trump airlines and Trump mortgages and Trump…

— Mitt Romney

We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of…

— Bill Crow

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's…

— Eddie Redmayne

I want to congratulate Senator [Bernie] Sanders for the extraordinary campaign… He has spent his long career in public service, fighting for…

— Hillary Clinton

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped…

— Michael Lewis

'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a…

— Hoda Kotb

We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's…

— Colin Firth

The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at…

— Desmond Tutu

I want to share that I had and still do, and a great relationship with Angela Ahrendts. She was the CEO of…

— Judith E. Glaser

I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties,…

— James Arthur

The one thing we can count on is that time will pass; day will become night, and the sunrise will bring with…

— Hal Elrod

Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it,…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

— Marco Rubio

An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which…

— Jennifer Dunning

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it…

— Junot Diaz

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

— Katy Perry

I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

— Ravi Subramanian

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my…

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a…

— James McGreevey

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be…

— Gary Lutz

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

You can't just coast along. You need to be extraordinary. If you want a promotion or a raise, ask yourself, 'How can…

— Megyn Kelly

I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long…

— Sophie Okonedo

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

— Andrew Motion

I knew I wouldn't survive solo in a studio. I'm so amazed by those people who have that extraordinary, obsessive need to…

— Emma D'Arcy

I don't dislike the way I look. I think I look fine. I think I look extraordinary for 88. And I've got…

— Elaine Stritch

“Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be--- EXTRAORDINARY.”

— Shannon L. Alder

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

— Carl Sagan

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat…

— Juan Enriquez

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

— Edgar Allan Poe