Extraordinary Quotes

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

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

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

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

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

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