Exceptional Quotes
- I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. — Jane Smiley
- I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional… — Thornton Wilder
- What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different. — Virginia C. Andrews
- It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the… — Oswald Chambers
- Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear. — Samuel R. Delany
- There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments… — Milan Kundera
- Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. — John C. Maxwell
- In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the… — Sue Monk Kidd
- Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms.… — Elizabeth Gaskell
- Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? — Salman Rushdie
- Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. — Jim Rohn
- Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone… — Salman Rushdie
- [E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. — Christopher Hitchens
- Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history… — Malcolm Gladwell
- There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. — Malcolm Gladwell
- Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional. — Eoin Colfer
- I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four… — Albert Camus
- It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us… — Alan Moore
- An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean