Quotes About Extraordinary

Desde aquella noche en la que el hombre que yo más veneraba me abrió su destino como se abre una dura concha, desde aquella noche de hace cuarenta años, me parece infantil e insignificante todo lo que nuestros narradores y poetas cuentan en los libros como extraordinario y todo lo que en los teatros se disfraza de tragedia.

The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

he needed them to translate his extraordinary ambition into the ordinary language understood by corporate America.

Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

You know, I've just discovered the Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone performance of Evita' at the Tonys. It's honestly one of the most extraordinary pieces of singing in the world.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don't care if you're an angel, you're my angel, and I won't let you go.

One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.