Famous quotes containing the words talent, contest and/or high:
“Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“And hearts that once beat high for praise
Now feel that pulse no more!”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)