It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...)… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Humanity has to start noticing that we are One. We are connected with the net of beings who are the life of… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I think the most extraordinary thing about fans is the level of excellence that they show in the work that they do.… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I first heard Miles Davis as a student, when I was struck by his extraordinary musicianship, and his work did affect some… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot.… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of… — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this… — Robert Powell Copy Share Image
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sean Chen has been an audience favorite from the early rounds. With his floppy hair and outstanding stage presence combined with an… — Gregory Isaacs Copy Share Image
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke,… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory.… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We had shot six episodes of the West Wing season when 9/11 happened. An extraordinary thing that would never happen today is… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically,… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
THE MIRACLE EQUATION: Unwavering Faith + Extraordinary Effort = Miracles. When you maintain unwavering faith in your dreams and give extraordinary effort… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
![“I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack Obama] has kept his demeanor, kept his temperament and has shown a power to inspire. I see what energy that he has inspired among the young. Well, it inspires…” quote by David McCullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/277/david-mccullough-1091_barack_i-think-it-is-one-of-the-most-extraordin_2784190.jpg)
![“Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...]…” quote by William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e82/william-gibson-642_addiction_addictions-started-out-like-magical-pets_1311461.jpg)
![“. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .” quote by Vincent de Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d4/vincent-de-paul-1676_evil_t-hese-ideas-are-only-suggestions-of-the_237589.jpg)
![“When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .” quote by Bill Vaughan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bfa/bill-vaughan-706_accidents_when-it-truth-emerges-it-often-bears-out_184836.jpg)
