Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Rogan

Live your life like you're the hero in your movie.

Jim Woodring

I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

Jim Morrison

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

Erik Qualman

With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

Erich Segal

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Eric Ludy

Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.

John Irving

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

Shan Sa

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

Michael Phelps

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

Michael Pollan

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

Siegfried Sassoon

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

Neil Gaiman

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

John Piper

All heroes are shadows of Christ

John Podhoretz

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

Nick Cave

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

Nancy Farmer

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

Sherman Alexie

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Seth Rogen

If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.

Scott Snyder

I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

Scott Snyder

A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

Scott Snyder

KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that I think people will be really excited to see.

Scott Snyder

I spoke to Geoff Johns a lot. We went back and forth, and found a way to bring up the best qualities in his personality and psychology and also fill a niche in Gotham that we've never seen. It became about is there a way to really plant this hero in Gotham and say this is someone you haven't seen before - both in terms of who they are as a person and who they are as a hero.

Scott Eastwood

I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

Seth Godin

How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

Tom Hiddleston

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

Tom Hiddleston

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

Tom Hiddleston

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

Todd Tiahrt

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

Siobhan Fahey

I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

Simon Winchester

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

Socrates

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.