I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
30 Rock' is my favorite TV show and Tina Fey is one of my heroes. She was a dream to work with… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery,… — Brady Udall 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
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Being in this business and surviving day-to-day can be a constant struggle. It's about learning how to be your own super hero,… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
In Asia, there aren't many characters as iconoclastic as the Monkey King. He's a trickster and contrarian character who works everywhere -… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I was in L.A. with my wife in a restaurant, and I spotted my great hero David Bowie at another table. Of… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I'm not a hero. The Hongkongers who confronted tear gas in the streets are the heroes. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Then what is magic for?" Prince Lír demanded wildly. "What use is wizardry if it cannot save a unicorn?" He gripped the… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Look,” Liam said, “sometimes being a hero isn’t about getting the glory. It’s about doing what needs to be done.” — Christopher Healy Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism. — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
Hero.' I've always struggled with that word. I'm just a guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
