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
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
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
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy!… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away… — Liam Howlett Copy Share Image
It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour. — Michel Ney Copy Share Image
I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's… — Min Copy Share Image
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future… — Bobbejaan Schoepen Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help)… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late… — John Isner Copy Share Image
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack. — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image