Top 1200 Extraordinary People Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary But don't count on it.

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.

It isn't necessary to seek out adventure. Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences.

I am excited by the opportunity to join such an extraordinary group of athletes and be a part of the 'Lucha Underground' family.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.

I'll forever be grateful to NPR that they gave me such extraordinary freedom... It was 37 years of a fond relationship.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested.

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

Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

Extraordinary is a player who can score 60 goals. There are not a lot. Otherwise I think we would overuse the term.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.

Any side that wins 21 out of 22 rounds is clearly doing something extraordinary.

'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

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

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

The potential for cognitive and related technologies to help us pursue new business offerings is extraordinary.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.