Quotes About Extraordinary

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.

She is a being not of this world," my great-aunt says quietly. "She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum.

He invented terrible stories…incredible machinations. Really the most striking thing about all these people was their incredible love for the extraordinary. They had to feel that they were exposed to the most extravagant dangers. They saw enemies in all whom they did not know.

Archimedes taught that of all the five elements, quintessence is the most rare, the most valuable, the one that transmutes the ordinary into the extraordinary. We are quintessence. It's a divine gift, and like all gifts, we must use it for the Library's greater glory.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

the nature of the world when you dared to see it clearly: a place of mystery in which extraordinary coincidences were more common than they seemed.

Just to have ordinary, garden-variety human consciousness is unspeakably extraordinary. We are the luckiest of mud. No need to consider further: we'd be perfectly justified to stop right here with tears of wonder and gratitude pouring down our cheeks.

I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

I don't want to be average.

I'm not trying to be average.

You know, you don't want to be just an average person.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime event for all of us, something like this.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Whatever kind of gentlemen you may be, you have a shabby appearance. Yet even in front of the extraordinary beauty of the exalted Seven Gods of Good Fortune, you show no reserve, but deliberately gather and entertain yourselves with elegance.

The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.

La mundanidad de la excelencia. Los logros humanos más deslumbrantes proceden en realidad de la combinación de innumerables elementos individuales que por separado son, en cierto sentido, corrientes.

We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.

The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.