That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
Mark Haddon

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.
Helena Bonham Carter

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.
John Guare

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.
William Hamilton Maxwell

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
Kenneth Branagh

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander Woollcott

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Francis Ford Coppola

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.
Mercy Otis Warren

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
Michael Feinstein

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.
John Engler

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
Chris Van Allsburg

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Stephen Gardiner

The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.
Robbie Coltraine

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
Fritz Kreisler

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Luc de Clapiers

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
Henry James Sumner Maine