Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Farmer

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

Missy Peregrym

I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie Blue.' People also think that I'm in the 'Twilight' series because of Kristen Stewart.

Philip Sidney

In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.

Philip James Bailey

As the master so the valet.

Philip James Bailey

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

Peyton Manning

I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

Pharrell Williams

My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.

Peter Drucker

In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

Paulo Coelho

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

Martin Scorsese

I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

Mariah Carey

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

Mariah Carey

There's a hero, If you look inside your heart

Rafael Nadal

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

Sheryl Crow

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I want you to know that I fought you fairly. Equal to equal. I could have used my powers against you, but I didn’t. (Stryker) Should I warm to oven and bake you a batch of hero-cookies? (Zephyra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)

Terence Fisher

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

Nora Roberts

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

Nikolai Gogol

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

Nikos Kazantzakis

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Mircea Eliade

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Miranda Lambert

I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.

Mignon McLaughlin

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

Marianne Williamson

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

Marianne Williamson

Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.

Marilyn Manson

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Marilyn Manson

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

Marilyn Manson

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

Michael Caine

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

Michael Caine

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

Merton Miller

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

Masashi Kishimoto

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!