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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• Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

  Dan Brown

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Lasts, Sometimes

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.144, Random House

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• There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.

  Tucker Max

  Fun, Crazy, Night

  Tucker Max (2011). “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, p.24, Citadel

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• 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, Kung Fu, Trust Yourself

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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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• 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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• Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

  Martin Scorsese

  Armstrong, Courses

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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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• But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Past

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.274, New World Library

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• The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Heart, Cities, People

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• The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. Old Naeiley handed the statue back to the Marquis. Then he raised his hand, and snapped it, like a crocodile hand, at the Carabas. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another.

  Neil Gaiman

  New York, Hands, Cities

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• I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours

  Jack Kerouac

  Memories, Writing, Winter

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Tristessa (Annotated)”, p.38, BookBaby

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• 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

  Science, Views, Evolution

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• Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

  Amish Tripathi

  Men, Amish, Fortune

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• But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could’ve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she’d ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Artist, Skills

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• I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Running, Pain

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