Prodigies Quotes

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

I was never a prodigy.

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.