Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit,… — Virgil Copy Share Image
The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The Luke Cage you saw in Season One was a reluctant hero. He was trying to figure out if he wanted to… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
If you want to be heroic, Don't emulate your heroes, learn from them. Heroes don't follow anyone, they set their own course. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Copy Share Image
The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how… — Adria Petty Copy Share Image
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college.… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the one who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted… — M T Anderson Copy Share Image
The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of one of my all time heroes, George Jones. Georges' music was real… — Easton Corbin Copy Share Image
I refuse some movies. I cannot always give reasons why I refuse. Sometimes, I refuse just because I feel like refusing! I… — Neha Dhupia Copy Share Image
The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want… — Katrina Law Copy Share Image
“I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
“And the best sort of villain is smart and subtle and so very tricky that you don't even know he's the villain,… — Roseanna M. White Copy Share Image
Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I guess you could say that I’m the luckiest girl because I got to meet my true hero. She was a precious… — Dottie West Copy Share Image
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes. — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a… — Goran Ivanisevic Copy Share Image
Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
[Alexander Haig and Ariel Sharon ] casualties in this war were more than in all the previous Arab - Israeli confrontations. If… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
' It doesn't take a Hero to order men into battle. It takes a Hero to be one of those men who… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
“Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image