My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
“Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship… — Aung San Copy Share Image
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship… — Mark Emmert Copy Share Image
Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
“Bring Cecily home,” he said curtly. “I won’t have her at risk, even in the slightest way.” “I’ll take care of Cecily,”… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“What are you two doing?” Her uncle’s teasing voice came into the room before he did. But his voice was the second… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else.… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“I've been in darkness nearly all my life, and you brought light into my existance for the first time. And maybe that's… — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings,… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
