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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Quote by Elbert Hubbard about people

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about nation, value, interest, world

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about quiet, common sense, sense, power, man

Stockhausen was a great guy, very rich in terms of musical imagination, all the different aspects of sound creation rolled into one extraordinary intuition. With a strict intention to be serial, but serial in an explosive way.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about intention, intuition, creation, wealth, imagination

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Quote by Colin Firth about wife, name, present, age, olderness, people

He was an extraordinary actor. The neat part was acting with him. He said, I don't know why you give yourself that kind of trouble, son. But for me, there was no trouble.

Quote by Peter Fonda about actors

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

Quote by Salma Hayek

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

Quote by Billy Joel about age, olderness

If you survive the extraordinary things, it will often be the little things that will kill you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, things

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

Quote by Joe Pantoliano about opinion

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about mind

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind not the fiend or the sadist.

Quote by Erich Fromm about power, danger, man

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about people, chance, reason, rightness, man, life

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Quote by Marcello Mastroianni about woman, sun, imagination

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about god, ambition, destiny

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.

Quote by Alexander Fleming about medicine, workers, influence, advice, chance

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity.

Quote by Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski about creation, force, police, music