Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.
John W. Hinckley, Jr.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.
Ron Chernow

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
John Schlesinger

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Vincent McNabb

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
Balthus

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
Salma Hayek

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
Jonathan Miller

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
Billy Joel

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.
David Hyde Pierce

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
Dario Fo

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
Jean Houston

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.
Hugh Grant

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.
Dorothy McGuire

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 to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Alexander Fleming

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
Ian Hacking

I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor