Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Sheckley

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

Robert M. Hutchins

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

Sarah MacLean

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

Sandra Oh

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

Sanaa Lathan

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

Samuel Johnson

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

Vittorio Grigolo

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

Vivian Campbell

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

Virgil

Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces

Warren Buffett

You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

Warren Buffett

I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

Warren Buffett

The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

Warren Buffett

I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

Vivienne Westwood

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

Vladimir Lenin

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.

Will Hermes

When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.

Will Hermes

Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.

Will McDonough

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

Virginia Woolf

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Werner Erhard

In a certain sense, all true leaders are heroes. Heroes are ordinary people who are given being and action by something bigger than themselves...... Each of us must make the personal choice to be a hero or not, to be committed to something bigger than ourselves or not, to go beyond the way we “wound up being” and have the purpose of our lives and our careers be about something that makes a difference or not, in other words, to be a leader or not.

Wallace Stevens

If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.

Wallace Stevens

Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud....

Sammy Sosa

He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.

Samuel Fuller

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

Samuel L. Jackson

It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor on Shaft. This time, I kinda got to go to Jersey City with him, and hang around, and watch him interact with other cops, people in the projects, and see what it means to be him. People call him 'Big Daddy' and he's this larger-than-life hero to a lot of people.

Sally Ride

I had both male and female heroes.

Salvador Dali

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

Ryan Phillippe

In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

Walton Goggins

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Walton Goggins

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

W. P. Kinsella

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

W. P. Kinsella

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

W. H. Auden

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.