Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miep Gies

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

Miep Gies

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

Mickey Spillane

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Margaret Weis

Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)

Joseph Addison

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The will to be oneself is heroism

Jose Canseco

I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role.

Jorge Amado

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Jorge Luis Borges

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Joni Mitchell

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Jonathan Tropper

You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.

Kevin Smith

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

Kevin Conroy

People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.

Kevin Bacon

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

Kenneth Kaunda

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

Kenneth Clark

Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

Joe Walsh

Every #‎ Veteran is a hero.

Joe Mantegna

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

Joanne Harris

My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

Jo Nesbo

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

Jimmy Carter

The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.

Jimmy Carter

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

The lay person doesn't have that training so their response to a life-threatening situation isn't always the same or as heroic as you would like it to be.

Will Rogers

The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.

Mahatma Gandhi

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

James Stockdale

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

James Spader

The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, ... I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

James Stewart

I think one day youll find that youre the hero youve been looking for.

James Otis

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

James McAvoy

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

James Mangold

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.