Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hiddleston

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

Tom Hiddleston

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

Todd Tiahrt

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

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.

Simon Winchester

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

Mercy Otis Warren

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

Michelle Shocked

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

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 Scott

A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.

Michael Scott

Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes.

Michael Medved

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Man, he deserves a hero cookie. (Selena)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra

Norman Finkelstein

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

Nina Simone

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

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 deGrasse Tyson

You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

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.

John Piper

All heroes are shadows of Christ

Ted Rall

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

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

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

Terry Pratchett

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

Margaret Halsey

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Margaret J. Wheatley

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Marcus Buckingham

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Marcus Buckingham

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

If great content is the hero, then banners are the villain.

Megan Fox

I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.

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.

Max Landis

Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over.

Matthew McConaughey

Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it.

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.