Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“They say that there are a prodigious number of birds hereabouts this year, so that perhaps I may kill a few.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and… — Charles Baudelaire 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
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale,… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible.… — Fernando Vallejo Copy Share Image
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
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