Prodigious Quotes
60 quotes by 54 authors
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The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population,…
— Thomas Malthus
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
— Charles Darwin
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
— David Hume
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The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a…
— Walter Russell
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Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount…
— Walter Russell
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance…
— Nikola Tesla
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The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring…
— Martin Luther
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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until…
— William Banting
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and…
— Thomas Browne
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I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
— Juliet Stevenson
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the…
— Vannevar Bush
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The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be…
— Virginia Woolf
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The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch,…
— David Foster Wallace
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Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do…
— Salvador Dali
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. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to…
— Thomas Browne
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Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at…
— Jacques Monod
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Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the…
— Cathleen Schine
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At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts.…
— Svante Arrhenius
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Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as…
— Marianne Williamson
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