Special In Quotes

#1. Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.

Nick Kroll

#2. I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.

Laurence Yep

#3. 'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part.

Ken Marino

#4. Be sincere - the surest was to become special in other's eyes is to make them feel special

Keith Ferrazzi

#5. the real stars - the ones who made it all the way up to that peak where they've been granted by adoring fans an almost godlike status - have always been special in some way, blessed with dazzling gifts and/or beauty, both talented and given to hard work.

Nancy Jo Sales

#6. There is someone special in my life right now, and I'm really happy with that, life is wonderful at the moment.

Bindi Irwin

#7. That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better.

Russ Rose

#8. Every inch of land there is so contested," I observed, more to myself than to him. "How many lives have been lost fighting over Jerusalem? Yet it is not special in terms of architecture, or location, or works of art.

Margaret George

#9. We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

Ian McLagan

#10. I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star.

Alex Honnold

#11. The moment you move faster than the slow pace of life is the moment you invite disruption and chaos to enter into your thinking. Instead, change your response to life. Don't move fast because the world around you is fast. Slow down and see life for what it truly is - special in every moment.

Neal Samudre

#12. Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

Lady Gaga

#13. The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some way, it would toast an imaginary English muffin.

Thomas M. Disch

#14. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.

Stephen Chbosky

#15. When you are DIFFERENT(in anyway)
When You are SPECIAL(in all ways)sometimes you have to get used to being on your own

Glee

#16. We are all special in God's eyes because He has designed us to carry His treasures.

Euginia Herlihy

#17. My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.

Roberto Aguire

#18. I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

Thomas Middleditch

#19. I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

Charlotte Rampling

#20. What, was there something special in your ice cream?" he said like an ass.
"Estrogen," she said. "You might notice some swelling in your boobs and shrinkage in your package for a few days.

Jamie Farrell

#21. If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#22. We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it.

Robert Magarian

#23. It doesn't matter what you don't worth now, but the courage and determination you maintain to achieve something special in your life is all that will count in the end.

Darmie Orem

#24. But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

Ryan North

#25. We are all special in a way; it is our duty to discover it.

M.F. Moonzajer

#26. This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

Amelie Mauresmo

#27. It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.

Chris Rock

#28. When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

Vin Diesel

#29. There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.

Miranda July

#31. Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.

Christopher Atkins

#32. The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Elton John

#33. I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was
special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged
other subjects.

Eve Arnold

#34. 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

#35. After years of searching, years of longing, years of hoping and then giving up, I'd found special in Carnal and in Tate. Special wasn't exactly perfect but, even so, it was pretty fucking spectacular and it was finally, finally mine.

Kristen Ashley

#36. All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#37. Humbling as it may be, for all our vaunted brain power, humans emerge as nothing special in the sensory sweepstakes. Our senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are middling, at best.

Jonathan Balcombe

#38. My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

Talib Kweli

#39. First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

Anuj

#40. At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

Brendan Myers

#41. Fat-heided creatures, the Carmichaels," she said judiciously. "Loyal enough, but stubborn as rocks."
"Thus sayeth a Fraser," I remarked. "The Carmichaels must be something special in that line.

Diana Gabaldon

#42. What it was was a lot, including the fact that maybe, just maybe, I was going to be special in some way to him too. And

Kristen Ashley

#43. She really just wanted his company. She wanted to hear him say that he liked her for who she was. That she was someone special in his world and in his life. She wanted him to give her some gesture of love, not just of friendship and companionship.

Stieg Larsson

#44. we loved reenacting what we saw. The Church Lady's catchphrases were our catchphrases, and we repeated them until my mother said, exasperated: "Please stop saying 'Isn't that special?' in that strange voice. It is annoying to me and to others." At

Mindy Kaling

#45. I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

David Beckham

#46. Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.

George Cukor

#47. You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.

Karen Salmansohn

#48. Everyone is special in their own way.

Stephen Chbosky

#49. You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

Guy Pearce

#50. I'm not important, having a child is not an amazing feat, and my child, while extraordinarily important to and beloved by her parents, is not particularly special in the scheme of things.

Emily Flake

#51. There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees - as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.

Ruth Ahmed

#52. [W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle.

Louise Seaman Bechtel

#53. We're all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

Larry Kramer

#54. I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.

Madonna Ciccone

#55. She kissed her teenage fantasy, the popular boy she used to dream would see something special in her and love her forever. The man kissed her back.

Ophelia London

#56. So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality.

Walter Isaacson

#57. My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

Caitlyn Jenner

#58. Herbs carried in special baskets, bread wrapped in knotted, muslin cloths, thick stews soured with unripe grape juice, carrots boiled with sugar and rosewater, yoghurt hung from dripping bags, its whey dried in sheets on trays in the sun.

Jennifer Klinec

#59. Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#60. But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.

Ellen Hopkins

#61. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.

Koren Zailckas

#62. The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.

Michel Hazanavicius

#63. Her gloves, as Razumihin noticed, were not merely shabby but had holes in them, and yet this evident poverty gave the two ladies an air of special dignity, which is always found in people who know how to wear poor clothes.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#64. The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

Catherine Bell

#65. When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.

Dallas Willard

#66. What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark?"
The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. His face froze. "Because I've suffered," he burst out.

John Knowles

#67. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

George Soros

#68. But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

#69. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#70. I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

Sheryl Sandberg

#71. You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.

Mary Doria Russell

#72. My whole thing is I want to affect history in a positive way. I want the timeline to be, 100 years from now, when we look back, it's going to be like, the world was like this, and then Shameik Moore hit the world, and everything changed for the better. It was a new light. Something special.

Shameik Moore

#73. One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy?

Robert M. Price

#74. Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.

Jay Parini

#75. Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Quentin Tarantino

#76. It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#77. I gave a friend a bottle of mercury for his eightieth birthday - a special bottle that could neither leak nor break - he gave me a peculiar look, but later sent me a charming letter in which he joked, "I take a little every morning for my health.

Oliver Sacks

#78. Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.

Peter Newmark

#79. Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.

Cheryl Tiegs

#80. If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.

Ted Cruz

#81. It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

James Clavell

#82. To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Mark Teixeira

#83. When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Jonny Greenwood

#84. Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Bobby McFerrin

#85. We are all emigrants from the same country - the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of us have taken - or are in the process of taking - from that special place.

Patricia Calvert

#86. You are lovelier than all the roses in the world.

Avijeet Das

#87. If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Cory Doctorow

#88. if you wanted special things to happen in your life, then you had to damn well get up of your own backside and make them happen yourself.

Neil Hunter

#89. we see faces in the clouds, but never clouds in faces, because we have special cognitive modules for face detection.

Jonathan Haidt

#90. I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played 'Doctor Who' in the new version and they've all been absolutely brilliant in their own special way, as all the Doctors always are.

Sophie Aldred

#91. Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.

Jacques Villeneuve

#92. Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

Kim Edwards

#93. The connection we have is something special. We know each other since we were in the womb! You can't get any closer then that

Bill Kaulitz

#94. That present she left in the bathroom was special. It's not a funk, it's a biological weapon. The Pentagon should be taking notes.

Gasmaskman

#95. It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Janet Jackson

#96. I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

Jennifer Aniston

#97. This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."

Jay Leno

#98. We have the ability (under special circumstances) to transcend self-interest and lose ourselves (temporarily and ecstatically) in something larger than ourselves. I called this ability the hive switch.

Jonathan Haidt

#99. I love being in scenes where I get to be part of a Maggie Smith put-down. A Dowager Countess put-down is always a special moment. Especially if you're working on set and she managed to do one off set at you.

Allen Leech

#100. As it's your 40th birthday
This, we'd like to say
May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
On this, your special day.

John Walter Bratton