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Quotes About Extraordinary

But what struck me as I followed the paper trail through each life was that while extraordinary circumstances produce extraordinary women, food makes them recognizable.
~ Laura Shapiro
What is it about her that is so goddamned special?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'm a special little snowflake," I said.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Everyone thinks they want an extraordinary life, but you don't. When standing knee-deep in yet another disaster, ordinary begins to look very good.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
~ John Pringle Nichol
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.
~ Ralph Linton
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.
~ Greg Bear
America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
~ Marco Rubio
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness and agility, a terrific certainty of movement, not to mention a ready wit, a talent for observation and strained attention.
~ A. I. Kuprin
Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.
~ Adam Smith
Look not just at the Roman campagna, the pageantry of Venice, and the proud expression of Charles I astride his horse, but also have a look at the bowl on the sideboard, the dead fish in your kitchen, and the crusty bread loaves in the hall.
~ Alain de Botton
It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.
~ Alan Brennert
For an ordinary man, yes she had replied. But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker
~ Alan Dean Foster
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
~ Alan Moore
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
~ Desmond Tutu
Bagi saya, hidup terlalu singkat untuk dilewatkan dengan biasa biasa saja. - Kugy
~ Dewi 'Dee' Lestari
It never ceased to amaze me how disinterested half the knights were in our own history, in taking advantage of the extraordinary gifts we'd been handed the night we were tapped into Rose & Grave. To them, it was just another privilege they'd been born into, like admission to Eli or their Long Island mansions. Did they have any idea how much more it was to…other people?
~ Diana Peterfreund
Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary
~ Diane Keaton
The activity will prove to be "peculiar" by leading the active person into Christ's own passion. This activity itself is perpetual suffering and enduring. In it, Christ is suffered by his disciple. If this is not the case, it is not the activity Jesus intended. In this way, the "extraordinary" is the fulfilling of the law, the keeping of the commandments.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And me who seem curious because no one has seen me for a million years, and now I'm seen! Is there such extraordinary need of misery to make beauty? Let go Hell; and your fall will be broken by the roof of Heaven.
~ Djuna Barnes
Don't be afraid to be amazing.
~ Andy Offutt Irwin
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.
~ Willy Ronis