Extraordinary Quotes - page 30

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.' (Lee Hall)
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. View quote
Ma Huateng
I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe. View quote
Marisa Berenson
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national. View quote
Malcolm Wallop
I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary. View quote
Alex Chiu
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. View quote
Alfonso A. Ossorio
Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings. View quote
David Ferrer
Growing up in a cold place, in Southern Ontario, Woolrich was a brand of choice for us because it was always warm and comfortable. The parka with the fur on it was standard fare for us. It's extraordinary that they have kept up with the times. Beyond the parka, they have changed, and they have some pretty hip, cool items which I wear. View quote
Douglas Kirkland
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time. View quote
Jill Robinson
Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way. View quote
John Barry
People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before. (John Wells)
Reality is always extraordinary. View quote
Mary Ellen Mark
Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do. View quote
Mary Schapiro
What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home. View quote
Megan Follows
Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts. View quote
Michael Enzi
Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization. View quote
Michael Moriarty
Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century. View quote
Mike Ferguson
I have a lot of respect for His Majesty Juan Carlos. I call him Uncle Juan because he is an extraordinary person whom I have known for a long time. View quote
Mohammed VI of Morocco
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind. View quote
Nassau William Senior
TV is an extraordinary medium. You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time, there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't really do that in two hours or three hours in a movie, that often, I would say. View quote
Naveen Andrews
Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy. (Nick Offerman)
I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc. View quote
Nicolas Roeg
My father was an extraordinary man. View quote
Nicolas Roeg
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. View quote
Peter Coyote
The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. View quote
Phil Gramm