It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour. — Michel Ney Copy Share Image
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin… — Chris Hoy 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
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
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
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
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like. — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn 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
Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy,… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
“Child prodigies usually pursue conforming achievement, following the well-worn paths to Carnegie Hall, the science Olympics, and chess championships. They succeed by… — Edify.me 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
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume 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
There are people at the extremes who aren't able to do anything musically, and then others sort of fall in the middle.… — Darold Treffert 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
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
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
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
If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written. — Eoin Colfer 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
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
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of… — John Buchan 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
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