Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalia Kills

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....

Katherine Mansfield

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

Kate Flannery

I felt like Jerry Lewis in France! Let the cast of Heroes go to France! The Office cast loves Scranton! The nicest people on earth are in Scranton. Thank you, Scranton for an experience we will take with us for the rest of our lives.

Julian Baggini

This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols, but we also want egalitarianism, and that requires proclamations of humility from our gods.

Julian Assange

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

Ken Kesey

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Ken Kesey

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

Keith Richards

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

Iris Murdoch

Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.

Ina May Gaskin

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Idi Amin

I am the hero of Africa.

Gregory Maguire

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

J. Michael Straczynski

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

J. K. Rowling

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

J. K. Rowling

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

J. K. Rowling

Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.

H. L. Mencken

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.

H. L. Mencken

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

Gunnar Myrdal

America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

J. R. Moehringer

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

Jerry Bruckheimer

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

Jerry Bridges

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.

GG Allin

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.