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Quotes About Extraordinary

It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.
~ Cocteau
There are no ordinary cats.
~ Colette
One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.
~ Colum McCann
Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's.
~ Virgina Woolf
What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.
~ Virginia Woolf
She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
~ Virginia Woolf
By conviction an atheist perhaps, he is taken by surprise with moments of extraordinary exaltation. Nothing
~ Virginia Woolf
What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.
~ Virginia Woolf
offensive is frequently but a synonym for unusual...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The cell was filled to the ceiling with the oils of twilight, containing extraordinary pigments
~ Vladimir Nabokov
lo ofensivo no suele ser más que un sinónimo de lo insólito.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I may be an arrogant asshole with more blessing than I'll ever deserve, but that doesn't mean I don't have enough self-awareness to recognize something extraordinary. Especially when I'm looking right at it.
~ Lara Adrian
You are a complication to be sure, Chiara Genova." He lifted her chin on the edge of his hand. His black irises swallowed her up, flecks of glowing embers mesmerizing her with their kindling heat. "You are also the most extraordinary woman I've ever met. And I would do anything – sacrifice any part of me, including my last breath – to keep you safe.
~ Lara Adrian
Tú no eres un error. Eres una criatura extraordinaria, Fenris, seas lo que seas'' Ronna
~ Laura Gallego García
Cuando tuvo ante sus ojos ese dedo sobrante que era objeto de asombro, no pensó ni por un momento que se tratara de un defecto; por el contrario, lo entendió como ganancia para ese ser venido al mundo con un pequeño don adicional. Sabía bien que toda rareza es prodigio y que todo prodigio trae su significado.
~ Laura Restrepo
Pleasant, polite, utterly normal. Yet in the Daily Mail an expoliceman had written this about her: 'One great difficulty is that the search is for a woman with certain attributes that are not common to the ordinary individual. She is talented. She is a woman who by the very nature of her work would have an exceptionally elastic brain. Consequently one would expect her, consciously or subconsciously, to do something extraordinary.' Well that, she thought, was really rather nice.
~ Laura Thompson
The people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.
~ Lauren Bacall
RULE 33: MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THERE IS A VERY ORDINARY EXPLANATION FOR THE 'EXTRAORDINARY' HAPPENING.
~ Lauren Child
When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet whispered, the fireplace sighed, the little washing-stand ticked, and one guitar-string played occasionally in the chest of drawers.
~ Charles Dickens
I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...
~ Charles Dickens
Passion is no ordinary word
~ Graham Parker
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
~ Graham Swift
Oamenii excep?ionali sunt exemple mai bune deoarece ei reu?esc s? exprime ceea ce oamenii obi?nui?i pur ?i simplu nu au cum. Noi, ceilal?i, p?rem mai distra?i, mai pu?in motiva?i. Cu toate acestea, destinele noastre sunt guvernate de acela?i motor universal. Oamenii extraordinari nu fac parte din alt? categorie, ci doar demonstreaz? mai transparent ac?iunile acestui motor.
~ James Hillman
Extraordinary people display calling most evidently…they are extraordinary because their calling comes through so clearly and they are so loyal to it. They serve as exemplars of calling and its strength, and also of keeping faith with its signals.
~ James Hillman