Quotes About Extraordinary

And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, everybody else seemed so ordinary. I had flipped.

Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so... ordinary. I'd never felt like this before. Ever. And just admitting it to myself instead of hiding from it made me feel strong. Happy. I took off my shoes and socks and stuffed them in the basket. My tie whipped over my shoulder as I ran home barefoot, and realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so… ordinary.

Every once in a while you find someone who is iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

But every once you will find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Yes, Jonnie," Emma said. "Extraordinary as it seems, it was mere coincidence that brought you to our door. It's the sort of thing that you expect to find only in a novel — and only when you know the author has been too idle to work it out any better.

The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen, if recognized.

Bastaba con creer que ya no necesitaba tender mis manos desnudas, con saber que ver el pez bajo la superficie era suficiente. Que lo era todo. Era mi vida: como todas las vidas, misteriosa e irrevocable y sagrada. Tan cercana, tan presente, tan mía. Y qué extraordinario era dejarlo estar.

God gives talent so that the ordinary person can become extraordinary. Talent is the only way the poor can become rich. Otherwise, in this world the rich would remain rich and the poor would remain poor. This unfair talent actually creates a balance, helps to make the world fair

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.

Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days.

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Even extraordinary circumstances could seem perfectly natural, simply because they were as they were; and in that case the awareness of their extraordinariness only dawned when others found them extraordinary.

I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thought: every time he embraced a little rosy-cheeked child he longed to remove its cheeks with a razor.

To bluntly suggest that all Nazis had a common, homogenous extraordinary personality that predisposed them to the commission of extraordinary evil is an obvious oversimplification.

Look for something different, something remarkable in a guy, and you won't be disappointed.

We're extraordinary people. We must do extraordinary things.

Nadie puede estimarse realmente perfecto si no sobrepasa en mucho lo que se encuentra normalmente.

Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the application was ill-judged. You have widely mistaken my character, if you think I can be worked on by such persuasions as these.