Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Truman Capote

Talent is a valued tormentor.

William Wordsworth

A tale in everything.

Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Zig Ziglar

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Milan Kundera

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Polybius

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Joshua Reynolds

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

John Carpenter

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

Gedde Watanabe

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

Haruki Murakami

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

John C. Maxwell

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

Elaine Stritch

If somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! You're wasting my time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Gordon Ramsay

I like finding talent. That's what really turns me on, I suppose.

John Dryden

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

Joan Sutherland

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

There's a lot of talent around, but sometimes talent can't find opportunity.

It's a tale of two teams. We just need to put it together.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

The talent is better but your teamwork is not.

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Thomas Jefferson

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Billy Donovan

So much of it right now has nothing to do with the talent level. It has to do with their makeup. It has to do with what they're about.

Lee Smith

This is a win-win for the region. She has so much talent.

Brett Favre

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Henri Matisse

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.