Reading Talent

Talent is only a starting point. - Irving Berlin

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

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

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. - John Wooden

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand

The English never draw a line without blurring it. - Winston Churchill

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

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

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

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed

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

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde

The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. - John W. Gardner

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. - Alexander Woollcott

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou

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

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. - Louis Hector Berlioz

Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

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

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere

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

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. - John Wooden

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

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. - Julie Kagawa

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? - Matthew Perry

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

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

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

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

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

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