His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
Joan Crawford

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
Joan Crawford

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
Wilson Mizner

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.
Henny Youngman

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James A. Baldwin