Quotes About Extraordinary

98. Look for the Extraordinary in the Ordinary I heard a story about two workers who were approached by a reporter. The reporter asked the first worker, "What are you doing?" His response was to complain that he was virtually a slave, an underpaid bricklayer who spent his

Beautiful. Jules once thought he'd understood what the word meant. He now believed it overused. Some word needed to be kept in reserve for the rare, the arresting, the surprising . . . the magical. Or a new one invented.

Sometimes extraordinary things can happen on the most ordinary of days.

Whatever the result, it would surely be much better than this extraordinary three-sided relationship—this self-intoxication with jealousy that continued to grow like a cancer.

Even our contemporary cult of celebrity can be understood as an expression of our reverence for and yearning to emulate models of "superhumanity." Feeling ourselves connected to such extraordinary

Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?

There was only one Peyton Manning.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

Everything had been based on a kind of certainty, a sense of man at the center of things, a sense of order and hierarchy. And suddenly, almost simultaneously, extraordinary discoveries are made.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.

I am not in the roll of common men.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

I am not a normal man.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life!

If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

My father was an extraordinary man.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.