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Quotes About Extraordinary

God made me and broke the mold.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A witch, a term created by those with no concept of what I am, is nothing more than an ordinary person with an extraordinary capability. We're just like everyone else."
~ Jeanne Adams
It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Actors, painters, dancers, comedians, even just ordinary people doing ordinary things, what are they without an audience of some sort? See, that's what I do. I am the audience. I am the witness, I am the great appreciator that's what I do and that's all I want to do. I worked for a lot of years. I did a lot of things for a lot of years. Now, here I am in the rocking chair, and I don't mind it, Lucille. I don't feel useless. I feel lucky.
~ Elizabeth Berg
But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!
~ Elizabeth George
And you have treasures hidden within you—extraordinary treasures—and so do I, and so does everyone around us. And bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He turned to see her glaring at him, her blond hair a halo about her head in the carriage's lantern light, and felt his lips quirk. She really was rather extraordinary. A pity he could not make her his wife in reality.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic--the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested people always have.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstâncias mais extraordinárias, durante episódios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais distantes de casa e de tudo que nos é familiar, possam existir esses momentos de incontestável alegria.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.
~ Elizabeth Wein
There were steep, stark cliffs, grey and barren, with extraordinary
~ Ellen Emerson White
Ordinary sounds remain ordinary only so long as one is not listening to them; under the influence of intense listening they become unusual, portentous, and therefore extraordinary.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Life? was what you worked to catch, the intense happiness of an object slightly set apart from you. Painting? was what you did, alone, and you sat there, and it was your own terrible fight or your own lovely bit, but it was really terribly alone. To take the moment before something had actually happened, and you didn't know if it was going to be terrible or if it might be very funny, something extraordinary actually happening and yet everybody around it not taking any notice.
~ Ali Smith
How did Dostoevsky know, she interrupted me, about that extraordinary vindictiveness, that relish for bitter laughter that comes over women in pain?
~ Ali Smith
Quando se vê um fato que não se compreende, e quanto mais extraordinário ele é, mais suspeitas desperta e mais o pensamento se esforça para lhe dar uma causa vulgar; se ele, porém, for compreendido, é logo admitido por ter uma razão de ser, desaparecendo assim o maravilhoso e o sobrenatural
~ Allan Kardec
Common is overrated.
~ Ally Carter
Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
~ Amedee Ozenfant
We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it.
~ Colin Firth
Maradona and Messi played in different times and in different positions. Messi is much more a striker, Diego was all over the entire pitch. They are two extraordinary players.
~ Diego Simeone
Robert Quinn. He's ridiculous. He can do anything a DB can do... at three hundred pounds!
~ Chris Long
There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.
~ Ken Livingstone
I am not a conventional man.
~ Chris Eubank Sr.
Now, admittedly, my power of concentration is and always has been extraordinary since my army training! In fact, other people say it is legendary and almost cosmic!
~ Dan Pena
I think I'm a different creature from the rest.
~ Liz Carmouche