Heroes Quotes

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

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