Reading Talent

The big talent is persistence. - Octavia E Butler

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman R Augustine

Synonym Bun: What a thesaurus eats for breakfast - Unknown

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

The English contribution to world cuisine. The chip. - John Cleese

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

Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham

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

All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost

Talent is a loan from God for the relief of man's estate. - Jelal Ad-Din

The English have three vegetables and two of them are cabbage. - Walter Page

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies. - Wally Amos

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

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal

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

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? - Margaret Atwood

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. - Leo Buscaglia

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. - Franklin P Jones

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. - Gordon Ramsay

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw

The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but failing to use that one talent. - Unknown

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. - Henri F Amiel

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. - Oscar Wilde

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

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

The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - David Viscott

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell