When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“One must have heroes, which is to say, one must create them. And they become real through our envy, our devotion. It… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try… — John Forsythe Copy Share Image
We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Pretty much all comic-book people, like all Hollywood people, for the most part, are pretty liberal. I think especially UK writers. Alan… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
“There was no way he could ever be my hero when his first words to me were a command to keep things… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of drag- ons, serpents,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“At best, you’re the untamed hero; at worst, you offend people wherever you go.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman? — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
Ive been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what… — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
