Extraordinary Quotes

It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.

I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

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

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.

All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.