Legends Quotes - Page 5

• History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

  Victor Hugo

  Reality, Men, Goal

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• I, personally, liked the legend.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fame

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• Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible, the fear of failure. Never forget your personal legend. Your silent heart will guide you. Be silent now. It is the possibility of a dream that makes life interesting. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Fighting

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• The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

  Nick Flynn

  Plato, Book, Years

  "The Ticking Is the Bomb" by Nick Flynn, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

  Stephen King

  Dark, Hair, Shadow

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• Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

  Martin Scorsese

  Armstrong, Courses

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• There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.

  Colleen McCullough

  Smile, God, Song

  "Fictional character: Ralph de Bricassart". "There are no ambitions noble", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

  James H. Billington

  Dream, Special, Tribes

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• Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it went beyond legend and returned through mist to the lovely folly of history. To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity.

  Don DeLillo

  Humanity, Historical, Lovely

  Don DeLillo (2011). “End Zone”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Loneliness, Love You

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

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Being Alone, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

  John Legend

  Men, Fronts

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• John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

  John Legend

  Men, Sound, Calling

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

  LaToya Jackson

  Chapters, Brands, Brand New

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• People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

  Lorna Luft

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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

  Ben E. King

  Keys, Clothes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

  Rex Harrison

  Lunchtime

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• Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

  Michael Connelly

  Character, Epic, Mcdonalds

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• No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Husband, Men, Would Be

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.

  Joe Posnanski

  Moving, Fighting, Blow

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• I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that's the moment of death. It's a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Falling In Love, Eye, Angel

  "Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

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• The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending.

  Adam Savage

  Fun, Urban Legends, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

  Tony Wilson

  Print, Picks

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• There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond the obvious and see things in this world that are truly wonderful... But they won't say anything, even if they do. Because the rest of us who view the world as logical and scientific wouldn't see the truth if it was posted up on a billboard.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Life, Believe, Views

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• The Black Eyed Peas sell thousands of seats in every country on the planet. You can't get nervous. We're all succeeding in all different parts of our careers. Just because I produce Nas and John Legend and Justin Timberlake doesn't mean it will change the dynamic of the Peas.

  will.i.am

  Country, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.billboard.com

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