If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
Clay Aiken

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
George Halas

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
Brigitte Bardot

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Ray Charles

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Ray Charles

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Anne Sullivan

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hermann Hesse

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
Mikhail Bakunin

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
Mikhail Bakunin

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
Vivien Leigh

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
Dan Marino

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
William Ames

We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.
Meir Kahane

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.
Steve Spurrier

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Andre Agassi

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
Manolo Blahnik