“ I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wan… Nick Hornby
“ There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some. Shannon L. Alder
“ And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. John Green
“ There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too ne… Victor Hugo
“ A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one. Frank D. Gilroy
“ I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve. Marie Lu
“ We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again. Michael Sokolove
“ He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the ma… Remy de Gourmont
“ Androma was good at what she did. But so was Dex.Besides, a prodigy could only outrun her master for so long. Sasha Alsberg
“ What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being an academic star, being applauded over and over again as a pro… Tom Wolfe
“ Your strengths might make you hard to approach, and might make your words sound uglier than what you actually mean, but they also make people look up to you. Marie Lu
