Reading Talent

What's another word for thesaurus? - Steven Wright

Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith

It is a happy talent to know how to play. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time. - Aaron Brown

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. - Jonathan Franzen

Every boy has more talent than he will ever develop. - Unknown

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. - Owen Meredith

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower. - Honoré de Balzac

Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance. - Unknown

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius. - Warren Beatty

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy

"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg

A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking and do something no one else is doing. - Bob McLaren

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas