I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to… — Anne Rice 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
We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Phulwa' was the role of my career and I got to do all what a male hero would do from action to… — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn't know about. I'm not saying the mind of a hero,… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
The drummer is definitely the hidden hero of a band they really hold the music together. It's actually a really difficult job,… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
[Sylvester Stallone] and I still touch base. I found out he was a fan of Heroes. That's kind of an amazing thing,… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger… — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence:… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics… — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
Dr. King has long been my hero. I didn't get to work with him much, but my husband did in the early… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
“Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“With the poet it was exactly the same as with the hero, and all strong, handsome, high-spirited, non-commonplace figures and enterprises: in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him.… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
If you are a certain kind of white conservative, especially a white male conservative, then Roger Ailes was a hero. He constructed… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others… — Les Carlyon Copy Share Image
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I think what I've tried to do is make the world a better place. I think that's what's really important. Nobody remembers… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image