Famous quotes containing the word prodigious:
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“What will you say, when I tell you truly, that I cannot possibly read our countryman Milton through. I acknowledge him to have most sublime passages, some prodigious flashes of light; but then you must acknowledge that light is often followed by darkness visible, to use his own expression.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)