Legends famous quotes

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
-- Akon

#Artist #Thinking #Legends

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)
-- Alan Lee

#Character #Legends #Bears

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Memories #Legends #Fantasy

Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Heaven #Legends #Royal

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.
-- Alex Salmond

#Real #Gentleman #Legends

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
-- Amish Tripathi

#Men #Legends #Fortune

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
-- Art Hoppe

#Money #Legends #These Days

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
-- Babe Ruth

#Hero #Athlete #Legends

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

#Clothes #Keys #Legends

Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
-- Ben Stein

#Believe #Book #Legends

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.
-- Bennett Madison

#Doe #Legends #Possession

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
-- Bette Davis

#Inspiration #Coffins #Legends

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

#Real #Legends #Myth

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
-- Bob Kane

#Legends #Lifetime

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25
-- Bobby Darin

#Want #Legends #Made

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

#Sports #Believe #Legends

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.
-- Brian Froud

#Land #Legends #Certain

I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.
-- Brian McKnight

#Creating #People #Legends

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.
-- Calamity Jane

#Girl #Want #Legends

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
-- Caroline Llewellyn

#Heart #Fiction #Legends

Underground, the stars are legend.
-- Catherine Fisher

#Stars #Legends

Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.
-- Celia Rees

#Black #Legends #Cloaks

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
-- Charles de Lint

#Magic #Legends #Legends And Myths

How the hell did I brainwash 35 girls in less than a year? That's impossible. You're making me out to do the impossible. You don't understand you are making me a legend.
-- Charles Manson

#Girl #Years #Legends

Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez

#Golf #Legends #Spare Time

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?
-- Chief Dan George

#Children #Fall #Legends

If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.
-- Christine Feehan

#Vampire #Legends #Creatures

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
-- Christopher Lee

#Inspirational #Legends

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend
-- Colleen McCullough

#Pain #Cost #Legends

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

#Long #Band #Legends

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -
-- David Carradine

#Choices #Legends #Kung Fu

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...
-- David Clement-Davies

#Reality #Stories #Legends

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

#Roles #Legends #Materials

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
-- Dennis Christopher

#Theatre #Broadway #Legends

A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.
-- Diane Duane

#Past #Legends #May

Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.
-- Don Yaeger

#Accomplishment #Done #Legends

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
-- Douglas Hyde

#Tree #Legends #Strange

Mick Foley has gone from being a hardcore legend to a cuddly teddy bear.
-- Edge

#Wwe #Gone #Legends

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
-- Edward Sapir

#Age #Events #Legends

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.
-- Eiichiro Oda

#Past #Events #Legends

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.
-- Elizabeth Janeway

#Change #Enemy #Legends

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.
-- Enid Nemy

#Glasses #Office #Legends

Become a legend? But I am already.
-- Eric Cantona

#Legends

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
-- Eric Kripke

#Legends #Urban #Obsession

If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
-- Eric Lander

#Hero #Legends #Forgotten

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

#Heart #Voice #Legends

Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist in 1837; rather it was his evolutionary views that allowed him, retrospectively, to understand the complex case of the finches.
-- Frank Sulloway

#Views #Legends #Evolution

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
-- Freddie Mercury

#Stars #Rocks #Legends

I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
-- Freddie Mercury

#Stars #Legends

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
-- Garry Kasparov

#Player #Legends #Chess

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.
-- Gordon Parks

#Legends #Impossible #Consuming

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
-- Grazia Deledda

#Dust #Body #Legends

Take new values : Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#Ordinary #Legends #Yogi

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
-- Helen Hayes

#Doe #Legends

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne.
-- Henri

#Men #Legends #Wayne

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Dream #Sea #Legends

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.
-- Henry Watson Fowler

#Queens #Humor #Legends

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
-- Hervey Allen

#Legends #Facts #Materials

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
-- Hirohito

#Race #People #Legends

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Vacuums #Legends #Might

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
-- Isabel Allende

#Legends #Fame #Storyteller

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Believe #Long #Legends

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Believe #Legends #Made

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Two #Years #Legends

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Men #Light #Legends

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
-- Jackie Kennedy

#Men #Legends

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.
-- Jacqueline Carey

#Play #Legends #Events

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
-- James A. Baldwin

#Together #Society #Legends

The pine is the mother of legends.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Mother #Legends

Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.
-- Jamie Campbell Bower

#Growing Up #Legends #England

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful,
-- Janusz Korczak

#Beautiful #Men #Legends

A legend - now I am like a unicorn.
-- Jean Giraud

#Legends #Unicorn

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.
-- Jeffrey Bernard

#Three #Legends #Pay

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.
-- Joe Royle

#Player #Legends #Duncan

Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.
-- Joey Barton

#Player #Legends #Miles

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
-- John Boorman

#Stories #Legends #Behavior

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
-- John Hersey

#Legends #Made

There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.
-- John Jackson Miller

#Legends #Teach

Asleep in lap of legends old.
-- John Keats

#Lap #Legends

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.
-- John Mason Brown

#Believe #People #Legends

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.
-- Jorge Valdano

#Giving Up #Legends #Do Not Give Up

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.
-- Joseph Jarman

#Legends #Jazz #Wells

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.
-- Joyce Johnson

#Artist #Legends

Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.
-- Juanes

#Latin #Bob #Legends

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
-- Judy Garland

#Lonely #Being Alone #Legends

The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
-- Julian Jaynes

#Sea #Eruption #Legends

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.
-- Justin Kirk

#Believe #Tabloids #Legends

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.
-- Karl Lagerfeld

#Needs #Littles #Legends

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
-- Kathleen Hanna

#Hero #Legends #Cult

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
-- Kathryn Lasky

#Brave #Legends #Desperate

Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right?
-- Kayla Harrison

#Want #Legends #All Time

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
-- Kenneth Anger

#America #Generations #Legends

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Hero #Forever #Legends

Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend
-- Kool G Rap

#Queens #Rap #Legends

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
-- Lady Gaga

#Demise #Legends #Cures

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

#Legends #Chapters #Brands

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
-- Lauren Bacall

#Past #Legends

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

#Lenses #Legends #Ancient

Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.
-- Lesley Hazleton

#Reality #Legends #Facts

Jeff Foxworthy is a legend. Every time I see his moustache it reminds me to wax my lip and every time I hear his jokes it reminds me to wipe my ass.
-- Lisa Lampanelli

#Wipe #Legends #Lips