Prodigious

Daniel Tammet

English Writer

There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

Jodie Foster

American Actress

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

William Banting

English Celebrity

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

e. e. cummings

American Poet

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

Karl Philipp Moritz

German Author

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

Juliet Stevenson

English Actress

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

Virginia Woolf

British Author

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Mark Twain

American Writer

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Jose Clemente Orozco

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Diana Rigg

British Actress

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.