If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!. — Bobby Sherman Copy Share Image
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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 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
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child… — Will Rogers 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
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
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
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“This book is not for parents who want to raise a perfect child. You can probably make that kind of kid, but… — Brett Berk Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges… — George Li Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never… — Samuel Johnson 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
“I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies. — Ethel Mumford 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 make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing…” quote by Rob Reiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edc/rob-reiner-6805_adults_albert-brooks-was-rare-in-that-he-could_1700755.jpg)
