Legend Quotes

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?