Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay McInerney

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

Christopher Hitchens

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

Moby

Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.

Moby

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

Moby

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.

Mike Rowe

I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

Kumi Naidoo

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

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.

Kathleen Hanna

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

Judd Nelson

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is a pathless land.

Jessalyn Gilsig

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Jesmyn Ward

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Huston Smith

Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.