Extraordinary Quotes

I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

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.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

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