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Quotes About Remarkable

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
~ Booker T. Washington
They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. To them - and this made them unusual - the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of timelessness were moments of revelation, of even greater understanding of life and of themselves.
~ Boris Pasternak
It is remarkable that chivalry, no matter how actual or merely aspirational it was in its own day, appeared when it did—that it appeared at all!
~ Brad Miner
Say it again, Aden," she whispered after a too-long moment. "All of that?" "I will punch you, you know." That made him grin. Remarkable, this lass. "I love ye, Miranda. I like ye, I admire ye, and I love ye.
~ Suzanne Enoch
I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.
~ T.S. Eliot
She was pretty, yeah, but pretty like hundreds of other girls. You," he dabbed the bread in the air as if sketching her, "you're...memorable. Who you are just shines through your face.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.
~ Kami Garcia
Well, the LeBron James of the world don't come around very often. That's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.
~ Kyle Korver
Jeremy Renner is an incredible actor.
~ Billy Unger
Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
~ Penelope Cruz
It has been curiously remarked by St. Andrew Avellino that those who have a special devotion to the Passion generally die quiet and sweet deaths, as the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary Magdalen did. Certainly it is remarkable that, while most of those close to Our Lord died violent deaths, the three who assisted at Calvary should have died so softly, as if already their real death had been died there.
~ Frederick William Faber
It seems odd that a place so remarkably agrarian could have produced the prophecies and theologies upon which the entire world now relies.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Tú lo tienes todo extraordinario, Trenza. Por eso no hay nada en particular que destaque.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Afterward, Ann did ask what was so great about this guy she loved. Tress did her best to explain, though she was certain world-traveled people like them would find her love plain and unremarkable. She underestimated the power of simple words spoken with passion. No one questioned her after that.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He gave a melancholy sigh and stood looking at her a moment, with his hands behind him, giving short nervous shakes to his hunting-crop. "Do you know I'm very much afraid of it – of that remarkable mind of yours?
~ Henry James
Fanny Assingham had at this moment the sense as of a large heaped dish presented to her intelligence and inviting it to a feast-- so thick were the notes of intention in this remarkable speech.
~ Henry James
The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.
~ Henry James
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
~ John Burroughs
Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.
~ Alain de Botton
I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
~ Lee Trevino