Special Quotes

#1. Do you visit all your patients?" I asked, peeking up at him.
He chuckled, and slid behind the nurses' station. He paused in the doorway of the stockroom, then turned. "Only the really special ones," he murmured, chocolate gaze sparkling as he winked and entered the supply room.

Shaye Evans

#2. Special discounts to Hogwarts students who swear they're going to use our products to get rid of this old bat,' added George, pointing at Professor Umbridge.

J.K. Rowling

#3. In no way did God want me to settle for one of the typical "jerks" who were a dime a dozen. He wanted me to save myself for a man who had His very nature and character within him. And He wanted me to trust Him enough to bring that special man to me in His perfect time.

Leslie Ludy

#4. We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.

Bill Crow

#5. She wasn't hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn't move.

Nathanael West

#6. Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.

Jamie Johnson

#7. I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'

Iyanla Vanzant

#8. I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

Tim Tebow

#9. Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underneath.
Acting right is better than looking right.
Realize what make you special beyond looks.
Evil can look pretty on the outside.

Shannon Delany

#10. I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

Edward Furlong

#11. It was true what they said about mothers and sons: it was a special bond, a mutual admiration society.

Melissa De La Cruz

#12. We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

David Fincher

#13. The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.

Fannie Barrier Williams

#14. I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

John Astin

#15. I think the thing that makes 'NCIS' so special is the team and the group. And there's our fearless leader, Mark Harmon. We all really enjoy working together, so it would be a shame if we weren't all there having fun together.

Michael Weatherly

#16. 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

#17. But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.

Grandmaster Flash

#18. God created us to be worshipers because it is right that he be known, loved and worshiped. This isn't because he is needy and wishes someone would tell him how special he is. No, it's because he is perfect and the worship of his perfection is holiness in action.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#19. I'll bring you a special tea ... to soothe your nerves, my dear. Is that fine?" Nyx spoke softly to Andy.
Andy nodded, "Yes, thank you."
Galen handed Andy a box of tissues. "I think she needs something stronger; vodka, perhaps?

Nely Cab

#20. When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving.

Robert Fisk

#21. The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Euripides

#22. So we bloom where we are planted, turning our faces to the sun. - From the 2013 Call the Midwife Christmas Special

Heidi Thomas

#23. I am the first model in the history of Victoria's Secret shows who walked the show wearing her TWA. Hence, I felt very special when I actually got the request to walk the show wearing my TWA.

Maria Borges

#24. Somehow I escaped punishment in that life, and so now, lifetimes later, a very special kind of hell is being rained down on me, the full rage of karmic justice.

Lisa Unger

#25. Even as good and self-worthy as it sounds, sometimes the dance alone season is for God to do some cleaning up as well. There are some things that are in you that God needs to clean out before He sends you that special someone.

Marcus Ray Bryant Gill

#26. I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called ... Eenie, meenie, miney ... mo!
-Bobby Pendragon

D.J. MacHale

#27. The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

Andres Iniesta

#28. Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

Ed Buckner

#29. You have one chance in life to make it something special. Why would you waste it on mediocrity? Safe and easy is for pussies. Be amazing and different. Be grateful for the uniqueness in you.

Tara Brown

#30. love is not just excitement, tenderness, feeling special; it is also a bone-crushing reality of pain.

Melissa A. Hanson

#31. There's a special place in hell for men who convince women their intuition is insecurity to protect their duplicity.

Dream Hampton

#32. Could you be happy if you woke up and suddenly you were no one special?

Kami Garcia

#33. If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

Gary Sinise

#34. There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves. I've seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need.

Chelsea Clinton

#35. This little boy is five years old, and big trees he loved to climb! His special name is Terry

Tali Carmi

#36. I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

Nancy Mitford

#37. While other children had backed away from white vans, I'd looked at them with longing. I wanted to be special enough to be taken. I wanted to matter that much. "Just

Skye Warren

#38. That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.

Marcus Sakey

#39. Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Billy Graham

#40. She's giving me that duh, really? look that my little sister gives me. Women must be born with that special talent.

Georgia Cates

#41. This is a special date but that was a special time

Anamika Mishra

#42. I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Victoria Justice

#43. I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My anguish, into something I can bear

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#44. If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

Richard Dawkins

#45. I wasn't born an early bird.
It took three different alarms clocks blasting in my ear every morning to wake me up. And on special occasions when I'd sleep through the bird caws, beeping, and extreme drum solos, Stella would have the privilege of yanking me from my bed.

Joddie Zeng

#46. Because the truth is that if everyone's special all the time, then really, no one's special, so maybe all that's left is just to be perfect, because at least that's something you can measure.

Brenna Yovanoff

#47. On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine ... no matter what you've done or haven't done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!

Joyce Meyer

#48. Well, Milwaukee is a special place to me. It's where I started my career playing in Appleton. Getting cheered on the road is something I haven't been use to.

Alex Rodriguez

#49. I can use the house to create a home. I can offer my family, my friends, myself, and even strangers the gift of love by making them feel special when they are in my home.

Sarah Mae

#50. And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on display.

Jonathan Tropper

#51. Those black eyebrows! Oh, what if her baby inherited those eyebrows? She'd have to get a special brush.

Maggie Robinson

#52. Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

David Mixner

#53. I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

Charles Duhigg

#54. That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

Godfrey

#55. Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

Laurel Clark

#56. I'd rather just help people with my creative energy. I want to remind them that they're cosmic light inside physical forms and they're an incredibly special part of god's wild mind of love, but I'd love to do that in the form of playing at venues or showing a film at festivals.

Giuseppe Andrews

#57. The narcissist cannot view himself objectively. Incapable of insight or self-criticism, he bases his identity on the illusion that he is unique, that there is no one in the world with his special gifts and talents.

Linda Martinez-Lewi

#58. Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

Padgett Powell

#59. If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

John Dos Passos

#60. Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

Margaret Mead

#61. There's a special place inside each and every heart where even lover & beloved are not allowed to enter as such. They dissolve & merge with eternity there.
Once they enter that place, there is no coming back.

Saurabh Sharma

#62. For special occasions, I love pretty dresses - but nothing too frou-frou!

Twiggy

#63. And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.

Joan Collins

#64. There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

Rodney Atkins

#65. Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.

Garry Shandling

#66. We're not looking for any particular experience, for the breath or the body to be a special way. Rather, we're simply listening to, being aware of, and receiving the contact of whatever presents itself.

Anonymous

#67. But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

C.S. Lewis

#68. You mean I'm the first guy your parents have rescued from an enchanted island via use of a magic mirror? I feel special.

Rachel Hawkins

#69. The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

Jim Butcher

#70. I seem to be good at speaking the politicians' language," Szilard said. "Apparently there's an advantage around here to being mildly socially retarded, and that's the Special Forces for sure.

John Scalzi

#71. I couldn't hurt you if I wanted to. You are my mate. The one fate designed for me. You are a rare and precious jewel, and I plan to spend the rest of my life showing you just how special you are,

Alice Brown

#72. There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#73. These incident acquaintances and the twisted stories that grew out of them, made John thinking that "Charles Dickens" was not just another pub, but a special place in the Universe, where life itself ties the knots.

Darren H. Pryce

#74. I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Gustave Flaubert

#75. You do not mess with the special investigators.

Lee Child

#76. I'm not flying to the moon. But when I've talked to people who have been up, you can tell it's really special because without fail a very special light comes into their eyes and they appear to be very fulfilled in some way and very calm.

Sarah Brightman

#77. I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

Tim LaHaye

#78. Nonetheless, love is a funny thing. More specifically, second loves are a funny thing. For no matter how special that second or third or even fourth love is, no matter how much you can't live without him, the first one always creeps in.

Lindsay Detwiler

#79. What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.

Lewis B. Smedes

#80. I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.

Clint Eastwood

#81. I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

Sarah Parish

#82. You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

L'Wren Scott

#83. In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.

Laird Hamilton

#84. Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

Bill Bradley

#85. I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

Edie Falco

#86. We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on.

John Petrucci

#87. When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.

Martin Lindstrom

#88. [E]scaping is its own special brand of pain, and tied to you always are the strings of the souls who didn't save themselves. ~ "The Worst You Ever Feel

Rebecca Makkai

#89. I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

Russell Smith

#90. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

Karin Slaughter

#91. It was a special kind of hell: to be so close to him and know he could never have him.

Alessandra Hazard

#92. Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

Ken Blanchard

#93. Our memories, those precious moments that shape our lives and makes us who we are. Our friends, our families, and all the special things we hold close to our hearts. Those are the things that can never be replaced

Virginia McKevitt

#94. Good morning, Meroe,' I said, dusting uselessly at my tracksuit pants. 'Might I interest you in today's special, pre-floured kitten?

Kerry Greenwood

#95. There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.

Bernie Sanders

#96. A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

Max Von Sydow

#97. What's a Muggle?" he asks, taking it from me. "I save that mug for special people, Kit. Don't ask questions.

Tarryn Fisher

#98. I don't go to a lot of shows. If you go to too many shows, then it doesn't become a special thing. Whenever I've been to a concert, it has been such a cool experience.

Jamie Blackley

#99. She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands ... It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

Jean M. Auel

#100. You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

Jerry Stahl