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Quotes About Prodigy

I've learned to respect Rick Ross' music.
~ Prodigy
I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy.
~ India Arie
I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.
~ Julie Andrews
I was performing from the age of three.
~ Jennifer Ellison
I started to become internationally successful starting at the age of 9.
~ Judit Polgar
I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.
~ Tori Amos
I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!
~ Ray d'Inverno
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
~ Samuel Johnson
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
~ Robertson Davies
Genius: the superhuman in man.
~ Victor Hugo
All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it.
~ Liam Howlett
I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.
~ Elton John
In the silence of her nonanswer, I considered the possibility that I was a very boring person. Who else but a boring person would utter such meaningless trifles? If a brilliant pig, the prodigy of the barnyard, spent his entire life learning Russian, and on finally becoming proficient the first words he heard were my own, he would wonder why he had wasted his best years when he could have been lolling in the mud, eating slop with the other dumb beasts.
~ David Benioff
Carmack quickly distinguished himself. In second grade, only seven years old, he scored nearly perfect on every standardized test, placing himself at a ninth-grade comprehension level.
~ David Kushner
Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.
~ Michala Petri
A genius must never be seen struggling to master his craft. He starts out already accomplished.
~ Edmund White
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
~ Jon Scieszka
Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.
~ Claudio Arrau
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
~ Robert Moses
I was a child prodigy. Like Michelangelo, who could draw a perfect circle at age five. I was extremely gifted. I could paint a perfect portrait of someone at age five.
~ Michael Cimino
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
~ Itzhak Perlman
Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?
~ Richelle Mead
If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That's the way history is written
~ Eoin Colfer