Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Jean King

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

Charles Olson

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Art Buchwald

I became a hero to everyone because I didn't take dialysis and was still alive.

Arthur Ashe

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

Aziz Ansari

I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.

Ayn Rand

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Atticus Shaffer

It doesnt matter about money and fame and whatever. I really dont care about that. My thing is, Im happy that Im able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Cameron Crowe

The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.

Carroll O'Connor

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

Carter Burwell

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

Carson McCullers

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

Carl von Clausewitz

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Alan Coren

Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

Steve Forbert

My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.

David Bowie

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

Aaron Eckhart

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Simon was a lion of a man, a survivor and a conqueror, a hero in every sense of the word.

Bruce Campbell

I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.

Brian Littrell

We don't need wings to be angels We don't need reasons to be right Your love makes us all better That who we really are Angels and heroes at heart

Brett Ratner

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

Brandon Sanderson

Every man is a hero of his own story.

Ben Nelson

The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.

Arthur L. Herman

Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Dick Vitale

My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

Dennis Haysbert

First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Edgar Allan Poe

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Edgar Allan Poe

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

Eldridge Cleaver

The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.