Some of my friends, they were the best, or prodigies, at the time, their development kind of stopped a few years later.… — Viktor Hovland 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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to… — Anonymous 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
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
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 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
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
![“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)
![“Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.” quote by Keri Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d0/keri-russell-8795_august_freddie-highmore-is-great-in-the-movie-a_1415076.jpg)
