Quotes about hero
hero roger my-hero
My hero is Roger Federer. Saina Nehwal
hero genius comedic
Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius. Tracy Morgan
hero men play
I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it. Verne Troyer
hero numbers t-shirt
I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer, Valentino Garavani
hero talking years
I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken of. All I saw in the story was some Irishmen meeting in a room and talking politics. What had that to do with America, especially with my people? It was not until years later that I saw what he meant ... I began to listen, to listen closely to how they talked about their heroes, to how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere. Ulysses S. Grant
hero television want
Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch. Robert Redford
hero rotten
And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself. Robert Cormier
hero irony worship
I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship. Richard Dawkins
hero men bigs
[Richard Leakey is] a robust hero of a man, who actually lives up to the cliché, “a big man in every sense of the word.” Like other big men he is loved by many, feared by some, and not over-preoccupied with the judgments of any.
hero rose work-ethic
Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said. Richelle Mead
hero faces stories
It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
hero writing skills
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world. Robert McKee
heroic journalist
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. Robert Crumb
hero grows ifs
If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow. Robert Duvall
hero play white
If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play Tupac Shakur
hero essence dry
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell. Roland Barthes
hero thinking clerks
Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never heard of their generation. When they think of "X," it's on the way to the video store. Roger Ebert
hero needs unworthy
Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.
hero firefighter people
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. Robert Wyatt
hero writing able
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. Robert Sheckley
hero army soldier
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. Robert M. Hutchins
hero writing quality
It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic. Sarah MacLean
heroic film standing-out
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece. Sarah Michelle Gellar
hero giving people
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb. Sandra Oh
hero black black-women
You would never expect a black woman to be the hero. Sanaa Lathan
hero remarkable has-beens
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. Samuel Johnson
hero people needs
People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life. Vittorio Grigolo
hero guitar important
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. Vivian Campbell
hero shepherds birth
Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces Virgil
hero men would-be
How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god. Washington Irving
hero heart winning
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
hero ambition soul
It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. Walter Lippmann
hero villain undone
Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. Voltaire