Quotes about hero
hero
I'm bad at picking heroes. Margaret Atwood
hero scary needs
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
hero different reason
One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different angles: Caliban in Shakespeare's day was probably viewed as a sort of comic, barbarian type, but into the 19th century there were productions where Caliban was the hero. He's a potential rapist of a minor. Is that a good thing? No, it is not. On the other hand, Prospero's got him cooped up in a cave and tortures him if he doesn't do what Prospero wants. Is that a good thing? No. Shakespeare doesn't let you off easy.
hero greatness people
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own. Margaret Deland
hero difficulty
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. Lajos Kossuth
hero class criminals
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. Oscar Wilde
hero firsts christ
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
hero looks stories
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look. Maeve Binchy
hero men doe
He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it. Lyman Abbott
hero men play
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner. Luke Rhinehart
hero character evil
There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them. Michael Jackson
hero thinking virginia
Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. Michael Cunningham
hero stories
What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?
hero people giving
Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said. Meshell Ndegeocello
hero play people
It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
hero winning balance
The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values? Mark Emmert
hero thinking people
My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung. Nick Offerman
hero suspense-novels novelists
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. Mary McCarthy
hero believe next-week
As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.
hero would-be admire
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes Mark Twain
hero fate challenges
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic. Nicholas Meyer
hero men romance
You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it. Nicholas Sparks
hero blood names
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories. P. L. Travers
heroin frightened
I tried heroin once and I didn't like it. It frightened me. Ozzy Osbourne
hero funny-things coward
The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
hero noble stories
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments. P. G. Wodehouse
hero two people
People are like, "Why are you all dressed up? Did you dress up just for me?" I'm like "No, I dressed up because I'm an adult and I felt like putting on my suit." But I love it. Tom Ford and Ralph Lauren are my two heroes of clothing designers. Paul Feig
hero light darkness
My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness. Matthew Gray Gubler
hero perfect people
A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all. Matthew Fox
hero red triumph
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs Mary Higgins Clark
hero government justice
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens. Martha Gellhorn
hero fate important
The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you. Martha Beck
hero self hands
Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition- will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is what all heroes (including you) are here to do.