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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do. -- John Green
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. -- Stephen Dobyns
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy. -- Herbie Hancock
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. -- Jamie Murphy
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. -- Harold Bloom
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies. -- Ethel Mumford
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. -- Samuel Johnson
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. -- Luciano Pavarotti
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. -- Itzhak Perlman
I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour. -- John Buchan
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance. -- Ambrose Bierce
I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling. -- Bobbejaan Schoepen
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults. -- Miles Franklin
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails. -- Adora Svitak
I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. -- Will Rogers
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something. -- Anthony Doerr
Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God. -- Frances Xavier Cabrini
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see. -- Henry David Thoreau
When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. -- Orson Welles
It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour. -- Michel Ney
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. -- H. L. Mencken
An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies. -- Domenico Gnoli
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about. -- Larry Wilmore
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion. -- David Hume
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on. -- Wendy Wasserstein
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show. -- Samuel Johnson

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