There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain… Unlike the slight… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We haven't evolved a hero story that's female. We're always trying to fit women's stories into this male structure, which is this… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I… — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions,… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time.… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it?… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a… — Emmanuelle Chriqui Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
If you look at Indian cinema, it has always been about the 'hero.' So it is not just a characteristic of the… — Radhika Pandit Copy Share Image
You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly… — Huston Smith 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
Annabeth didn’t want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. “Percy, wake me for second watch. Don’t… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause… — Francis Dunnery Copy Share Image
“doesn’t matter whether the cultural hero-system is frankly magical, religious, and primitive or secular, scientific, and civilized. It is still a mythical… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches,… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
Here’s the life lesson I’ve learned, Fifi: Some people are born to play the hero, and some are born to play the… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
