Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shania Twain

Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.

Len Wein

The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

Lawrence Durrell

The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

Larry David

I think Michael Moore is a hero.

Samuel Johnson

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Sam Worthington

I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet. I love doing them, but sometimes you wanna completely try something different and create something unique and get lost in it a bit because it's completely far away from me.

Sam Worthington

I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

Sam Claflin

PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family

Ruth Glick

Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart.

Ronald Reagan

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

Robert Jordan

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

Robert Jordan

If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

Roberto Clemente

A nation without heroes is nothing.

Robert Pattinson

Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a world that is both funny and abrasive. I'd love to play John Self, the depraved hero, who's without illusions, he created.

Walt Whitman

A man can be a hero in any profession

Walt Whitman

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Tom Morello

I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.

Tom Harkin

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

Tom Hanks

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

Tom Hardy

I spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time [ on The Dark Knight Rises] I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.

Tom Hanks

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

Tom Brokaw

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Tom Clancy

If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?

Tim Kaine

When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals or John McCain's not a hero, he is showing you who he is.

S. J. Perelman

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. 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.

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.

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.