Legends Quotes - Page 2

• Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

  Hervey Allen

  Facts, Materials

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• We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

  Hugo Ball

  Beautiful, Heart, Age

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• 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, Architecture

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• 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.

  Hervey Allen

  Civilization, Leaving, Departed

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• But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Men, Play, Alex

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

  Sidney Poitier

  Jackie

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• 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.

  Frederick Soddy

  Real, Past, Example

  Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Should Have Known, Be A Man

  Look Magazine, 27 Nov. 1967

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

  Mark Knopfler

  Ovation

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• Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

  Joseph Jarman

  Jazz, Wells

  interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• 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.

  Hans Arp

  Technology, Men, Essence

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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

  John Boorman

  Stories, Behavior, Myth

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• He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Respect, Nice, Believe

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

  Bob Kane

  Real, Myth, Real Truth

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• As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

  Douglas Hyde

  Educational, Passing Away, Culture

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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• 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, Information

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.395, Univ of California Press

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• I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

  Denis Johnson

  Jesus, Silly, Writing

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• An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  Walter Bagehot

  Exaggeration Is, Interesting, Vices

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1858). “The National Review”, p.463

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• 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.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Growing Up, Memories, Thinking

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• The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Father, Men

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• In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

  John Legend

  Artist, Judging, Wonder

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• The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

  John Legend

  Reality, Fire, Play

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• Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

  Douglas Hyde

  Tree, Strange

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• I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

  Roy Orbison

  Funny, May, Helping

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

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Ancient, Should

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