Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cathy Rigby

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

Bette Davis

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Antoine Fuqua

Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

Bill Vaughan

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Bill Vaughan

Goal achievement is hero's work.

David Blankenhorn

We have a need for heroes as a species, you know. That is one of the distinguishing traits of humans. We have a need to have an idealized sense of who we are at our best.

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.

Arthur Griffiths

Timber is my hero and undoubtedly saved my life,

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

C. S. Lewis

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

Cecelia Ahern

I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

Carrie Brownstein

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

Carrie Fisher

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be a victim.

Carrie Fisher

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

Bill Bryson

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

Clark Kepler

I thought it would resonate, but I'm surprised at the size of it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I already know my size. I don't need reminding.

Henry Blodget

If any mega-merger of this size can work, this one can.

Tracy Adams

I could still use some more size on this team but we'll work with what we have.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Jane Addams

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Charles R. Swindoll

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.