Famous Quotes & Sayings

The transcript really doesn't give you a sense of the heroism on that flight. I would like to have (the tape) released.

Bernie Siegel

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

Donald Pleasence

I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?

Corazon Aquino

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

Colleen Atwood

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today,

Colin Wilson

I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Dalai Lama

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself.

Richard Jackson

I particularly like your American ones, where the hero is invariably amorous, alcoholic and practically indestructible.

J. J. Johnson

In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.

J. Edgar Hoover

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

Irwin Edman

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

Ira Hayes

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

Illeana Douglas

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

Jack Gleeson

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

Harrison Ford

I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

Harrison Ford

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

Glenn Ford

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.

Gregg Harper

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

Siegfried Sassoon

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Instead of the classic, heroic story that we all so much want to see, we see a story about a man who unfortunately can't get together to do what he wants to do.

Greg Boyle

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

William Clark

You have become role models for teams all around the world, ... and you are heroes in our community.

These are the heroes of the Northern Police District.

The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes

Santana Moss

I'm not going to go out there trying to be a super hero or anything like that. You never know when, but it's going to be stepped up. Everyone's going to rock and roll.

Kirk Hammett

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

Kirk Hammett

For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.

Kirsten Dunst

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

Kevin Costner

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

Kevin Costner

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

Kenneth Tynan

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.