Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. E. Hinton

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

Russell Means

Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.

Ronald Reagan

I'm a sucker for hero worship.

Ronald Reagan

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

Romain Rolland

You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things.

Sam Raimi

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

Sam Keen

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.

Ron Shelton

Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.

Roland Barthes

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.

Susan Orlean

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

Studs Terkel

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Sting

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

Steve Jobs

You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

Steve Jobs

I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.

Stephen Sommers

I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do a horror movie. I took the concept and made a romantic adventure film. I like action heroes who don't take themselves too seriously. I wanted to make everyone take the mummy seriously, but it couldn't just be a guy in bandages. But the main thing was to build in surprises. That's one of the great things you can do with special effects.

Stephen Frears

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

Molly Ringwald

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

Miranda Cosgrove

My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.

Peter Tatchell

If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.

Peter Temple

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

Peter Tork

You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not check it out.

Peter Thiel

For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don’t matter.

Peter Berg

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

Pele

Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion.

Paz Vega

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

Phil Foglio

Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.

Peter S. Beagle

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

Peter S. Beagle

Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.

Peter S. Beagle

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

Peter S. Beagle

You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.

Peter S. Beagle

Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

Peter Carey

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

Philip Pullman

I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.