It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
When I directed the pilot for 'Smallville,' I knew that making Clark Kent relatable would be the key to audiences believing in… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“It is both the greatest power and potentially the greatest weakness of the hero to love and care and strive beyond reason.… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
For tonight I'm famous, for tonight I'm king And I will be remembered, for centuries of sand This man was a hero,… — Mars Mavis Paul John Copy Share Image
Chess - it's a nonmainstream game. And the irony is that when you look at Hollywood, it kept using chess as the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn and Aftershock… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi.… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I… — Romain Rolland 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
“What we at first deem useless might end up being the next bestseller. It can be the product's novelty, fun factor or… — Simon Zingerman Copy Share Image
“Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed. And… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Fighting can be like champagne. It can go to the head of a coward as quickly as of a hero. Anyone has… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“We’ve all seen the movies where the hero is in trouble, he’s surrounded by twenty people, but you know he’s going to… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
A hero today must be Raj Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Shammi Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan rolled into one. These… — Boney Kapoor Copy Share Image
I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about… — Bert Jansch Copy Share Image
I know some of these guys who are in that 'stalkerazzi' world, and you really have to separate them from the paparazzi… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
Your child, your friend your neighbor, somebody looks up and says "You know what? I am going to move my life towards… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
I don't want to adhere to any particular image. I have tried to bring in variety to my characters. But then, only… — Nivin Pauly Copy Share Image
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actors usually feel skeptical about double hero films because one character might overshadow the other, but the late scriptwriter K. Subash has… — Karthi Copy Share Image
“Madonna's- Justify My Love, follows us into the lounge, where several men, seated at the tables, eye us like hungry lions as… — Giorge Leedy Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
