Baseball Quote by Bill Veeck

“Sir Lancelot increased in fame and worship above all men, for he overthrew all comers, and never was unhorsed or worsted, save by treason…

— James Knowles

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that…

— Malcolm X

“His very first story, he told me as he was dying, was set in Camelot, the court of King Arthur in Britain: Merlin the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake.” She…

— Tessa Dare

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not…

— Roger Zelazny

“Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming…

— J.K. Rowling

“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses spectacles, sober…

— Mark Ellis

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always…

— Stephen Merchant

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the…

— Florence Nightingale

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Tell me, what kind of woman managed to land the most decorated soldier in England?' 'The kind who cares nothing for medals or laurels.'…

— Lisa Kleypas