Quotes about hero
hero larger-than-life
You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself. Mitt Romney
hero benefits stones
Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence. R. D. Laing
hero stones medusa
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
hero struggle leader
The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered. Nelson Mandela
heroism pay youth
I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.
hero down-and breaking-down
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.
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 trying roles
I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be. Leonardo DiCaprio
hero discovery missing
You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something. Paul Gallico
hero mean play
I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. Paul Giamatti
hero men dragons
Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have been either a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there. Patrick Rothfuss
hero media years
We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize the story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week. Park Dietz
hero men thinking
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do. Lillian Hellman
hero brave should
Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should. Lev Grossman
hero men knowing
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
hero stories relief
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
hero ideas important
My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important. Lea DeLaria
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 divorce exercise
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen. Iris Murdoch
hero chickens ifs
If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken. Ina May Gaskin
hero
I am the hero of Africa. Idi Amin
hero heart moonlight
But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart. Gregory Maguire
hero yesterday today
We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.
hero men people
Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes. J. Michael Straczynski
hero eye dark
His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord. J. K. Rowling
hero writing littles
She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
hero thinking people
I think people imagine that I have about five scripts sitting in front of me and I say, 'I think I'm going to go with the super hero thing and after that I'll wrap it up with some more sci-fi and then do a romantic comedy.' But it doesn't quite work out that way. Nathan Fillion
hero thinking littles
I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.
hero thinking knowing
I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.