Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Bradbury

But no man's a hero to himself.

Ray Bradbury

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

Shan Sa

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

Michael Phelps

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

Michael Pollan

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

Siegfried Sassoon

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Sherman Alexie

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Seth Rogen

If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.

Scott Snyder

I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.

Scott Snyder

A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

Scott Snyder

KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that I think people will be really excited to see.

Scott Snyder

I spoke to Geoff Johns a lot. We went back and forth, and found a way to bring up the best qualities in his personality and psychology and also fill a niche in Gotham that we've never seen. It became about is there a way to really plant this hero in Gotham and say this is someone you haven't seen before - both in terms of who they are as a person and who they are as a hero.

Scott Eastwood

I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

Seth Godin

How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.

Tom Hiddleston

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

Siobhan Fahey

I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.

Mercy Otis Warren

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

Michael Scott

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

Michael Medved

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

Norman Finkelstein

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

Neil Finn

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

Neil Gaiman

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

Theodore Zeldin

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

Terry Pratchett

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

Max Roach

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

Maynard James Keenan

One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.

Maximilien Robespierre

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime

Patricia Hill Collins

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

Patricia Briggs

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

Paddy Chayefsky

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

Philip Zimbardo

Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, "What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me!