My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing "Oscillate," imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back… — Becky Fischer Copy Share Image
“The next generation should embrace their struggles. A butterfly develops only after a struggle to break free from its cocoon. A diamond… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“From there, a more difficult period began. Even the villains, the world's worst people, the one percent, what have you, imagine themselves… — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
“I do not have a hero complex. I have always been attracted to strong, independent women. I like a girl who has… — Cheryl McIntyre Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Standing strong, when you know you might fall. Staring back at who you used to be. How far you have come, you… — Jenna Bognar Copy Share Image
“There was a moment, however, when the King and I were looking directly into each other's eyes, and in that instant I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE… — John Green Copy Share Image
I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
“I need to give you one last bit of advice in the off chance this rather extraordinary and enviable situation in which… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men;… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
There was a very difficult time when a female hero was a man in a woman's body. 'Hunger Games' really changed that:… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I put my heart and soul everyday into showing my appreciation for the incredible sacrifices of the US Military heroes by using… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Paul Gascoigne was one who I watched as a young boy. He was a hero to all of us really. Chris Waddle… — Gary Cahill Copy Share Image
Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image