You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy. — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies” — David Mitchell 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'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
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 only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack. — Dhani Harrison 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
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal 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
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
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
The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that… — John Baird 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
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
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 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
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history,… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. — Anonymous 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
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. — John Green 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've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image