Quotes About Exceptional

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

Simon Mignolet has been first class.

performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional.

They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional. I was the girl abandoned by her mother. I was the girl who kneeled on grits. What a special case I was.

I knew that there was a largeness in you. I knew you possessed a generosity of abilities that comes only rarely into the world.

It takes a pretty special man to take the place to no man at all.

Whenever I feel we are being less than we could be, we talk about it. It's not always a long conversation. Sometimes it's simply a reminder that we could settle for mediocrity or we could create something truly exceptional. Our relationship is wonderful because it's a decision we make over and over.

How did you explain that some people were special? That they were somehow more than everyone else?

It's insane but it's a great insane.

Bono. He still is somebody who, and I don't say I'm starstruck in that sense, I'm always in awe of. It doesn't matter how many times I've been with him, he's still an exceptional man that continually inspires me in many ways in life.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.

when they told them that they were special and unique.

Awesome is the word one uses for Eleanor Roosevelt, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and pitching a no-hit no-run ballgame. Not available for the crappy cheese quesadilla you had this afternoon, nor for anybody who Dances with the Stars. With or without a wooden leg.)

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

I am not the typical WWE superstar.

I don't think anyone can do what I already do. I just do it and it's unique, yeah.