Top 1200 Extraordinary People Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.

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

I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.

Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.

I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make.

It's hard to imagine going back to Italy, despite my experience in Serie A being extraordinary.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not have gotten a role, but for me, acting is not a competition. I've just kept my head down and kept working, and had the great pleasure of working with some amazing people and playing some extraordinary and extreme characters.

There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't.

My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. But if you look at the track record America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that. And that I think is going to be an important task.

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.

Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have to suffer.

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

When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

I am always pleased to talk about Buffon. He is an extraordinary player, a professional with values.

My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

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

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.

This extraordinary group has absolutely captivated my imagination, knocked my socks off - what more can I say?

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

I have always believed that everyone has the potential to do something extraordinary if they're guided and helped along the way.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

Neymar has important and extraordinary records. And he also has a solidarity side that he will gradually show.

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

I actually think, as unusual as it might sound, that working in the White House is an extraordinary life.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

I'm sad to have left Spain because in my opinion LaLiga is an exceptional, unique and extraordinary league.

Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.

The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.