Famous quotes containing the word talent:
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterflys wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)
“Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.”
—Michael Harrington (19281989)
“Helen: Youve got talent and ambition.
Don: Talent? Ambition? Thats dead long ago. Thats drowned. Thats drifting around with a bloated belly on a lake of alcohol.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)