Prodigious Quotes

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In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they… — Jodie Foster
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to… — E E Cummings
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use… — Joshua Foer
A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is… — Chris Martin
There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us… — Daniel Tammet
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. — Mark Twain
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. — Charles Dickens
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That… — William Shakespeare
He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character. — Edgar Allan Poe
Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate,… — William Strunk, Jr.
Well, my love,â€ said Alexia with prodigious daring to Lord Maccon, â€œshall we?â€ The earl started to move forward and then stopped abruptly and looked… — Gail Carriger
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than… — Peter Singer
Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning. — Charlotte Bronte
Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity. — Tim LaHaye
You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for… — C.S. Lewis
Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake… — Joseph Conrad
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always the best content from these prodigious witrers. — Xantara

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