#extraordinary

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary! ↗

— Doris Lessing

#everything #extraordinary #time

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. ↗

— Philip Levine

#because #extraordinary #home #i #i think

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#anything #everybody #extraordinary #lots #never

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#extraordinary #french #how #know #you

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#around #corner #else #even #every

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#chat #come #cook #day #dog

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #good #good action

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#i #ordinary situations #people #put #real

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. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#confluence #extraordinary #feel #global #i