That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I… — Jim Lampley Copy Share Image
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There were more of them out there. More walkers. And I was being asked to step up and be... what? Some kind… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is… — Bernard Ziegler Copy Share Image
The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Maybe love was no match for ice...but Piper had used it to wake a metal dragon. Mortals did superhuman feats in the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I am drawn towards the sort of characters who are in situations where they don't want to be in. But that's a… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
The problem is that when Argentina doesn't play well - and the same is true of Barcelona - the press think it… — Angel Di Maria Copy Share Image
Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective.… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
With storytelling, you have to see yourself as the hero in the movie of your own life, and I kind of see… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths."… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at… — Lamorne Morris Copy Share Image
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in the hero that sets out to climb a mountain and achieves it with no setbacks. I he does,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say,… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
My associate director, Lisa Leguillou, is remarkable: flying around, visiting all the companies. She is truly the unsung hero of 'Wicked'. She… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Who is this cautious unhoping young woman? Where is the hero who bore such batterings for love and stood up before witnesses… — Isabel Miller Copy Share Image
There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass… — Danielle Dax Copy Share Image
There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image