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Quotes About Extraordinary

That's because I'm made of awesome." "And dipped in awesome." "And sprinkled with awesome." "Gods, I love the taste of awesome.
~ Gena Showalter
It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had.
~ Bill Bryson
That is the most extraordinary fact about Britain. It wants to be a garden. Flowers bloom in the unlikeliest places - on railway sidings and waste grounds where there is nothing beneath them but rubble and grit.
~ Bill Bryson
Whatever prompted life to begin, it happened just once. That is the most extraordinary fact in biology, perhaps the most extraordinary fact we know.
~ Bill Bryson
His point, of course, is that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful. So
~ Bill Bryson
ocean vents harbour some of the most extraordinary life on the planet.
~ Bill Bryson
I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people—teachers, plumbers, the guy who runs the pub—drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that?
~ Bill Bryson
It is an extraordinary fact but a true one that there are thousands of men in Britain who will never need Viagra as long as steam trains are in operation.
~ Bill Bryson
It is extraordinary to think that before he settled in London and became celebrated as a playwright, history provides just four recorded glimpses of Shakespeare—at his baptism, his wedding, and the two births of his children.
~ Bill Bryson
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary
~ Blaise Pascal
The fact he has some kind of bond with you is quite extraordinary, she [Deep Throat's daughter] said. He doesn't remember Ed Miller and other FBI guys. He remembers J. Edgar Hoover. Well, I thought, Hoover and me.
~ Bob Woodward
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
~ Booker T. Washington
Their love was great. Most people experience love without becoming aware of the extraordinary nature of this emotion. But to them—and this made them exceptional—the moments when passion visited their doomed human existence like a breath of eternity were moments of revelation, of continually new discoveries about themselves and life.
~ Boris Pasternak
I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
~ Bram Stoker
I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
~ Bram Stoker
Gideon, you don't fit any type, I drawled. You're in a class by yourself
~ Sylvia Day
Gee baby, you are rare.
~ Sylvia Plath
Dreadful events lead people to do extraordinary things
~ Tamora Pierce
Iuletta's delicate pallor whitened. Her eyes became the shade of the purple core of a peacock's feather. She was extraordinary, and for an instant, Cornelia fell back from her aghast at this unconscionsciable loveliness.
~ Tanith Lee
La perfection est absolue, n'est-ce pas ? On ne peut pas être un peu unique, on ne peut pas être plus que parfait. Et pourtant... Vous l'êtes
~ Julia Quinn
Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.
~ Julian Gough
No me parece que la luciérnaga extraiga mayor suficiencia del hecho incontrovertible de que es una de las maravillas de este circo, y sin embargo basta suponerle una consciencia para comprender que cada vez que se le encandila la barriguita el bicho de luz debe sentir como una cosquilla de privilegio. De la misma manera a la Maga le encantaban los líos inverosímiles en los que andaba metida siempre por causa del fracaso de las leyes en su vida.
~ Julio Cortazar