Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Baldwin

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Adam Baldwin

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

Abraham Lincoln

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Alex North

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Danielle Dax

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Dan Lipinski

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

Colson Whitehead

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time." As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss. If this were not so, we would not have needed to create the words heroine, hero, or courage.

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

Melissa Marr

You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth.

Helio Castroneves

You have to be smart. He went from hero to zero, getting the pole position and doing what he did.

Paul Simon

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

George Brett

Don't try to be a hero. Try to be a winner.

David Gemmell

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

David Gemmell

Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.

David Gemmell

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

David Eddings

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact...

David Benioff

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

David Benioff

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

David Baldacci

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

Dave Grohl

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

Dave Grohl

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

Daryl Hall

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

Darrell Waltrip

If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if you cheat and get caught, you look like a dope. Put me where I belong.

Clark Gregg

I guess what we know about the Avengers is there's a reason why all of the heroes that we've been meeting, from Thor to Captain America - everybody - they need to work together.

Dan Rosensweig

Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

Dan Simmons

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

Dan Rather

It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority. I think there's a hero on every street corner in New Orleans, and I think the reporting has shown that. I think the balance has been there.

Dan Quayle

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

Padgett Powell

I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

Timber is my hero and undoubtedly saved my life,