For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

The first Broadway play I ever saw was 'The Bad Seed' by Maxwell Anderson and with Patty McCormack. 'The Bad Seed' was from an extraordinary novel by William March.

Pep is an extraordinary coach.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

My life is extraordinary because it's so normal, but it's so 'extra' for some reason.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

My father was an extraordinary man.

Too many people say they want someone extraordinary in their lives but they aren't extraordinary themselves.

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

Messi is just extraordinary.

I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.

I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.

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

In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and animator.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.