Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephan James

Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective. Through my research, I obviously learned a lot, much of which made me sad, upset, disappointed and even angry, regarding what Jesse had to go through. Not only was he a black man in America during an age of high racial tension and segregation, but he was also living in the middle of the Great Depression - it was very difficult times for him and his family.

Stephan James

Sacrifice. I'd never been in a position where I was number one on the call sheet, and everything was in my lap. I worked 16 hour days, and I was just not the lead of any film, it was a film about Jesse Owens, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century. It was a whole new type of responsibility. It was a big weight, and I wanted to do him justice, especially in reviving him after 80 years.

Stendhal

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

Stanley Clarke

Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

Stanislav Grof

Walt Disney was my great hero.

Spike Milligan

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

Spike Milligan

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Silvia Cartwright

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Sessue Hayakawa

My one ambition is to play a hero.

Rick Riordan

The gods need heroes. They always have.

Rick Riordan

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

Rick Riordan

I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around." I feel so wanted. Thanks.

Rick Riordan

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

Rick Riordan

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

Renata Adler

In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place.

Swami Vivekananda

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

Swami Vivekananda

Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools or systems in their name. They never create any stir but just melt down in love...

Tim Heidecker

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

Robert A. Heinlein

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

Riley Keough

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

Tim O'Brien

Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.

Steven Wright

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Steven Seagal

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

Robert Brustein

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Tom Selleck

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine

Tom Hiddleston

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Tommy Franks

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

Raymond Queneau

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.

Victoria Pratt

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.

Victor Hugo

There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

Victor Hugo

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

Veronica Roth

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.