How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green Copy Share Image
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Obama can't be everything to everyone. He changed. He did. I never thought I'd hear Obama say, "Let's go back to nuclear… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre'… — Isabel Bishop Copy Share Image
Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that, — Sheryl Swoopes Copy Share Image
Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be… — David Lang Copy Share Image
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac 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
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.... — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
