Famous quotes containing the words talent and/or contest:
“What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens—when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)