Legends Quotes
494 quotes by 387 authors
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In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.
— Jeffrey Bernard
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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova…
— Keith Donohue
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I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep…
— Denis Johnson
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Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend…
— Mary Renault
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There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond the…
— Aprilynne Pike
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When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
— Tony Wilson
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How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more…
— Joe Posnanski
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No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about ‘Super Mario’ or ‘Legend of…
— Satoru Iwata
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
— Ralph Stanley
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We won’t ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer’s…
— Darren Fletcher
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We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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A legend is an old man with a cane...
— Miles Davis
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We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for…
— John Donne
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Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose…
— John Stokes
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer…
— Walter Bagehot
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
— John Hersey
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I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)
— Alan Lee
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Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
— Hervey Allen
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