Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Isaacson

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

Winona Ryder

Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.

Winston Churchill

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor....

Winston Churchill

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

Willie Mays

I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio) wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe was the best all-around player. Joe was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

William S. Burroughs

I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.

William Manchester

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.

Woody Allen

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

Woody Allen

You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.

William Shenstone

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

William Shatner

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

William Nicholson

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

William Friedkin

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

Samuel Smiles

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

Willard Scott

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

Whoopi Goldberg

Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?

Warren G. Bennis

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Ronald Reagan

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Ronald Reagan

Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America.

Saina Nehwal

My hero is Roger Federer.

Wole Soyinka

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

Will Rogers

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Zack Snyder

I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in this next chapter. Let’s face it, it’s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world.

Zachary Quinto

Heroes and Star Trek were 2006 and 2007, and I was just about to turn 30, and everything changed. I found myself on this amazing journey, which continues, but it's now at a natural transition point. I'm reevaluating and reexamining how and where I go from here.

Zachary Quinto

I had just gotten Heroes, and I had just found out that I was going to be doing [Star] Trek, and I thought it was probably a good idea for me to create an infrastructure that would allow me to do my own work and put my stuff into the world.

Zachary Quinto

People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.

Zachary Quinto

Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

Yvon Chouinard

The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.

Yukio Mishima

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Yukio Mishima

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

Zhang Yimou

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

Zach Braff

Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.

Walter Mosley

A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.