Legend Quotes

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

People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

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

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

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

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.

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?

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

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

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me.

When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.

The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.