Reading Talent

The big talent is persistence. - Octavia E Butler

What's another word for thesaurus? - Steven Wright

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. - Janet Flanner

Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers

I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

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

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

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? - Steven Wright

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. - Stephen King

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name. - Zach Galifianakis

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman

It is the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. - Anatole France

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

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers

There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne

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

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent. - Gordon Ramsay

No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it. - William Osler

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

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

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him. - Jerry Falwell

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon