There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies. — Ethel Mumford Copy Share Image
“I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies. — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. — John Green Copy Share Image
Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
Some of my friends, they were the best, or prodigies, at the time, their development kind of stopped a few years later.… — Viktor Hovland Copy Share Image
The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out;… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Everyone loves a prodigy [...]. Prodigies get us off the hook for living ordinary lives. We can tell ourselves we're not special… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing "Baby's Got A Temper," the last single. I think… — Liam Howlett Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given… — Eliot Paulina Sumner Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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