Legends Quotes - Page 24

• I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.

  Will Cuppy

  Believe, Who I Am, Years

  "Living from Can to Mouth". "Brooklyn Eagle" Magazine, November 24, 1929.

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• By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Goal, Logic

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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• The pine is the mother of legends.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mother

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.73

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• 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, Might, Truth Is

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• Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Hands, Giving

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 2 'Old and New Art'

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• From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.

  Billy Joel

  Kids, Gun, Boys

  Song: The Ballad Of Billy The Kid, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• All legends have a base in fact.

  David Gemmell

  Facts

  "The Swords of Night and Day". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 14, 2004.

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• Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Sex, Technology, Way

  "The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.

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• 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

  Impossible, Consuming

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• Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.

  Frederick Soddy

  Civilization, America, Missing

  "Morning of the Magicians" by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Berger, (p. 181), 1963.

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• As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

  Brock Yates

  Truth, Reality, Events

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• There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

  Venus Williams

  Men, Games, Wimbledon

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• Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

  David Cameron

  Hero, Figures, Our Time

  "Nelson Mandela: world leaders mourn inspirational figure" by Conal Urquhart, Dan Roberts, Paul Lewis, Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.

  Big Sean

  Rap, School, Dedication

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• Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

  Dick Trickle

  Gone, Very Good, Right Now

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• Power is more than the punch. I get so much power and belief in myself from God, and from God the power passes through my legs, through my hips, up to my shoulders, through my arms, and into my fists...I'm written to be a legend.

  Naseem Hamed

  Legs, Fists, Arms

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• We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.

  Ari Up

  Should Have, Important, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.

  Eric Kripke

  Growing Up, Thinking, Interesting

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Hero, Jacques Cousteau

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Pride, Ideas

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Example, Three

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.105

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• How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

  Martha Graham

  Knowing, Giving, Dancer

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town.

  Victor Lewis-Smith

  Dull, Towns, Built

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• Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Two, Together, Looks

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Supportive, Pope, Institutions

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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