Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry Washington

Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our lead characters can only look like somebody else. Heroes look like all of us. We see ourselves in each others' stories. We see who we are. We see who we want to be. Sometimes we see who we don't want to be. And through that we have a greater understanding of ourselves and acceptance of each other.

Marshall McLuhan

Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

Malcolm McDowell

The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

Mahatma Gandhi

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Gail Carson Levine

I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

Mackenzie Astin

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To a valet no man is a hero.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Chuck Palahniuk

A good story should change the way you see the world.

Christy Turlington

If you truly want to make an impact on the world, you can and you will.

Christopher Paolini

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Anne Bronte

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Anne Bronte

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

Angelina Jolie

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Angelina Jolie

I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.

Amos Oz

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.