Quotes about hero
hero believe crafts
Heroes? Don't believe in them. Samuel Fuller
hero mean cities
It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor on Shaft. This time, I kinda got to go to Jersey City with him, and hang around, and watch him interact with other cops, people in the projects, and see what it means to be him. People call him 'Big Daddy' and he's this larger-than-life hero to a lot of people. Samuel L. Jackson
hero males female
I had both male and female heroes. Sally Ride
hero people influential
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. Salvador Dali
hero play careers
In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there. Ryan Phillippe
hero want looks
We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Walton Goggins
hero forests sean
My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
hero needs
Heroes don't need to talk about what they did. W. P. Kinsella
hero flood true-hero
Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.
hero aces pilots
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. W. H. Auden
hero demise mortals
No hero is mortal till he dies.
hero law suffering
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
hero adventure writing
Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward. Tove Jansson
hero desire psychological
Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero. Velupillai Prabhakaran
hero men common
If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.
hero heart winning
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition. Van Jones
hero thinking curiosity
If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking. Ursula K. Le Guin
hero done outsiders
The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away. Twyla Tharp
hero might tests
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. Wilfrid Sheed
hero heart humble
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all. Wilferd Peterson
hero giving waiting
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person
hero men progress
The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
hero idols my-hero
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. Warren Zevon
hero home mean
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
hero reality villain
The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals. Waylon Jennings
hero discovery conquer-the-world
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces Stefan Zweig
hero years accomplishment
When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes.... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.
hero coward immortality
The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. Thomas Guthrie
hero play people
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks. Tim Burton
hero islands would-be
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero. Thomas Frank
hero party character
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement. Raymond Queneau
hero looks action
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience. Victoria Pratt
hero law steel
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel. S. J. Perelman