To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

- Hanna Rosin

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

- Joseph Mawle

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

- John Noble

You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.

- Jennifer Beals

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

- James Cook

There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.

- Johnny Vegas

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

- James Weldon Johnson

As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

- Jules Verne

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

- Itzhak Perlman

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

- Hazel Scott

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

- Alex Rodriguez

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

- Guy Gavriel Kay

Being gifted needs courage.

- Georg Brandes

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

- Eric Wilson

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

- Ethel Waters

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

- Ben Saunders

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

- Adam Pascal

My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.

- Ali MacGraw

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

- Andre Gide

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

- Allen Ginsberg