Extraordinary Quotes · Page 54

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite…

— Brian Greene

“Simple things are found in ordinariness - but extraordinary things live inside things that are loved.”

— Laura Chouette

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able…

— Rosellen Brown

I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform…

— Kohei Uchimura

Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm…

— Martin Scorsese

The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.

— Deepak Chopra

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

— Peter O'Toole

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence,…

— John Owen

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

— Virginia Woolf

Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love…

— Anonymous

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate…

— Darren Hardy

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're…

— Jason Mraz

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma…

— Clive Barker

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police…

— Barack Obama

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history…

— Olympia Snowe

To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or…

— Henry More

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this…

— Jonathan Franzen

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected,…

— Seamus Heaney

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be…

— Gloria Steinem

To see the difference between when I came to Britain in 1955 with what it is today, to see how the sub-continent…

— Art Malik

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue…

— Maria Edgeworth

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

— Salma Hayek

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think…

— Annie Dillard

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

— Pete Gill

I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me.…

— Melissa Febos

We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge…

— Jeff Merkley

The fact that the UFOs and UFOnauts use advanced scientific devices and extraordinary powers (reported by many trained and highly qualified witnesses…

— George Fawcett

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that…

— Anonymous

And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol…

— Michael Scheuer

I have to say, opening up in New York taught me a lot about that level of attention to detail. London's a…

— Gordon Ramsay

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

— Kofi Annan

We can't have extraordinary dynamism, innovation, and change in the economy and expect to have predictability and stability in our personal lives.…

— Robert Reich

Reincarnation?” He shrugged. “I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe…

— Patricia Briggs

Sometimes the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary, just by doing them with the right people. So choose to be around…

— Anonymous

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks,…

— Honore de Balzac

People should show up and vote at the polls, unless there's an extraordinary reason not to do so.

— Tom Fitton

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in…

— Stephen Gardiner

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they…

— George Whitefield