Famous Quotes & Sayings

Masashi Kishimoto

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

Mason Cooley

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

Mason Cooley

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

Mason Cooley

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

Mason Cooley

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

Mason Cooley

Necessity makes heroes of us all.

Michael Grant

You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

Michael Grant

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

Michael Jordan

Not every flying hero has a cape.

Martin Sorrell

When you go back to the above names it was a very much narrower situation - the alternatives were far fewer. Today there is much more competition for the 'hero stakes'! And if you think about all the alternatives you have today to spend your time on, the pool of heroes is much broader. It was very much less back then.

Martin Sorrell

That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.

Oscar Wilde

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

Maeve Binchy

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

Lyman Abbott

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

Luke Rhinehart

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.

Michael Jackson

There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them.

Michael Cunningham

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

Michael Cunningham

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

Meshell Ndegeocello

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

Michel de Montaigne

No man is a hero to his own valet.

Michael Mullen

If the untimely battlefield deaths of generations of American heroes have taught us nothing else, it should be this unalterable fact: what you do with your time here on earth is far more important than the time you had to do it. Those who live most are those who love most, who act the noblest and do their best.

Mark Twain

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Spike Milligan

I'm a hero with coward's legs. I'm a hero from the waist up.

Steve Forbert

My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.

David Allen

He was an inspiration, to say the least, ... For all of us. ... He was our hero in a lot of ways.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Simon was a lion of a man, a survivor and a conqueror, a hero in every sense of the word.

Jean Paul

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

Jerry Robinson

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

Jennifer McMahon

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

James A. Garfield

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.