Extraordinary Quotes

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.

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

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

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

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 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.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

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

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.

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

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

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.