She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a hero to many; this,… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
Ruth Gordon was such a delight to watch in 'Rosemary's Baby' after I had first seen her in 'Harold and Maude.' And… — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
“I get my heroes so that they're lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and single, of… — Violet Winspear Copy Share Image
In your time of trouble, I wish that I could be the one that you'd call at night. When you needed a… — Mhine29 Copy Share Image
I love the notion of the feckless sort of knight in tarnished armor who would love to fill the shoes of the… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero;… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In myths and movies, the mentor can play a few roles: they bring the hero a magical gift, teach them how to… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
The appeal of the paranormal bad boy - or James Bond super-spy, as one example of male escapism - can sometimes make… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I directed the pilot for 'Smallville,' I knew that making Clark Kent relatable would be the key to audiences believing in… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
“It is both the greatest power and potentially the greatest weakness of the hero to love and care and strive beyond reason.… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
For tonight I'm famous, for tonight I'm king And I will be remembered, for centuries of sand This man was a hero,… — Mars Mavis Paul John Copy Share Image
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi.… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn and Aftershock… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Chess - it's a nonmainstream game. And the irony is that when you look at Hollywood, it kept using chess as the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
