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Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning. -- Charlotte Bronte
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son. -- John Dryden
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 I must love a loathed enemy. -- William Shakespeare
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. -- Jose C. Orozco
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. -- Virginia Woolf
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. -- Mark Twain
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
If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about. -- Adam Mansbach
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 your uniqueness, so we hold on to that. -- Chris Martin
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 were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships. -- 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 Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. -- e. e. cummings
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 my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. -- William Banting
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 spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious. -- Marianne Williamson
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 a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth. -- Joshua Foer
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 having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation. -- Daniel Tammet
Hitler is a prodigious genius. -- David Lloyd George
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. -- Charles Dickens
Fear is the most prodigious enemy of our soul -- Abhishek Shukla
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. -- Charlie Chaplin
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. -- Jose C. Orozco
Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things. -- Martin Luther
I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. -- Lynne Stewart
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. -- Charles Darwin
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. -- George Santayana
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults. -- Ian Somerhalder
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. -- Charlie Chaplin
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts. -- Jules Verne
The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first. -- Domenico Gnoli
From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully. -- Robert Schumann
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 today, this Salvador Dali. -- Salvador Dali
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. -- Michel de Montaigne
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy. -- Charles Baudelaire
Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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 the fixed stars in their places. -- Joseph Conrad
Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. -- Lajos Kossuth
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, you will have bad time Reminder 14. -- William Strunk, Jr.
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, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often. -- David Foster Wallace
With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We should all be lucky enough to be such a bad feminist. -- Ayelet Waldman

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