Top 1200 Unlikely Heroes Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Loner heroes do appeal to that part of yourself that feels as though your genius hasn't been recognised.

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

Honoring our nation's heroes and their caregivers is a cause very important to me - especially on Independence Day.

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

To be honest, I still get awestruck when I meet my heroes and the people I admire. I think that's only natural.

It is simply a moral obligation to make sure our nation's heroes have a home to return to at night.

I have many queer friends who I consider to be heroes of mine, and they feel the same way toward me.

It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.

Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in different contexts. If the artist is unaware of the context, it's very unlikely the work will be very good.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

If the concept of the Enterprise crew meeting the Legion of Super-Heroes doesn't appeal to you, there may be something wrong with you.

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

It's hard to not act like a fan when you're in these scenes with your heroes, but you can't do that because you respect everybody so much.

CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.

We can bring this country together. But we must realize that our heroes in blue are part of the solution and not the problem.

To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that's the biggest honor as an artist.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

We did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities.

For many terrorists, carrying out an attack allowed them to become the heroes of their own story.

Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

Cinema immortalizes ordinary people. Not just the ones we watch on the silver screens, but also the behind the scene heroes.

I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article.

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.

We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people.

We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet.

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set of companies as New York or Cleveland because the region has a different set of strengths and defining institutions.

Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

is grey, and I like that about all the characters, the killer, the driver... the movie has a very unlikely Hollywood ending, at the same time it helps you for a sequel too. Those are the things that I think are attractive, it's more, its real life, and people can identify with it and it just grounds it to a certain degree. That's the reason why.

In America, we have holidays and monuments that celebrate heroes from our past, most of whom have legacies that are settled.

The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.