Prodigies Quotes · Page 2

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

“The music world is where child prodigies go to die.”

— Haruki Murakami

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that…

— Michala Petri

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

— Jamie Murphy

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child…

— Will Rogers

Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free…

— David Hume

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

— Eoin Colfer

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and…

— Herman Melville

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

— H. L. Mencken

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

— Itzhak Perlman

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

— Blaise Pascal

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

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

— Gioachino Rossini

Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at…

— Gaston Leroux

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

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

— Ethel Mumford

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

— Mara Wilson

An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark…

— Noel Coward

Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy,…

— Keri Russell

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

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

— Anonymous

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.

— Samuel Johnson

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And…

— Brad Paisley

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

— Franz Liszt

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

— Fred Astaire