Famous quotes containing the word talent:
“But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabricand pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
—GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“The best friend will probably get the best spouse, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)