Quotes tagged ‘Extraordinary’

(28 total)

“It's time the world sees just how extraordinary you are.”

— Tracey Scott Wilson, Gwen Verdon, Michelle Williams, imdb.com

“There's a kind of awe of the human body doing something extraordinary.”

“If you're raised to believe if nothing about you is special, if the benchmark is extraordinary, what do you do if you're not?”

— Lauren Schmidt, Jeremy Slater, Steve Blackman, Vanya, Ellen Page, imdb.com

“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Mary Poppins was right, it's extraordinary! It does make you feel better!”

— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Mr. George W. Banks, David Tomlinson, imdb.com

“I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible.”

— Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar, Alicia Nash, Jennifer Connelly, imdb.com

“I’m not just an ordinary fighter, okay? I’m the Iron Fist.”

— Dwain Worrell, Danny Rand, Finn Jones, imdb.com

“I'm gonna look back on my time with you and remember you as an extraordinarily good smelling woman with a magical ass, and you're smart, so you can even get away with being less attractive, and you'd still be fairly attractive.”

— Sharon Horgan, Rob Norris, Rob Delaney, imdb.com

“Life is made of little moments, precious as diamonds. But imagine there were an endless sea of diamonds. They’d all be worthless. They’d be as common as sand.”

— Jane Espenson, Merlin, Elliot Knight, imdb.com

“Swiss cheese shirt, car bounces off of you, punching through steel and concrete. Just another day, right?”

— Nathan Louis Jackson, Claire Temple, Rosario Dawson, imdb.com

“Beth: Am I evil? Rick: Worse, you're smart. When you know nothing matters, the universe is yours. And I've never met a universe that was into it. The universe is basically an animal, it grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots, just to eat them, not unlike your friend Timmy.”

— Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new...”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this—never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be—usually is, in fact—a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on…”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“That’s the curious thing about love, isn’t it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are.”

— Alexander McCall Smith, amazon.com

“It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”

— Edmund Hillary, goodreads.com

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.”

— Patrick Ness, amazon.com

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“I was the kind of child who always looked for fairies dancing on the grass. I wanted to believe in witches, wizards, ogres, giants and enchanted spells. I didn’t want all of the magic taken out of the world by scientific explorations.”

— V.C Andrews, amazon.com