Legends Quotes - Page 8

• As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

  Nathan Parsons

  Kids, Stories, Haunting

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• To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

  Martin Buber

  Chronicles, Know How, Knows

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I don't think you need to watch Arrow and Flash to appreciate what it is Legends has to offer. The beauty of this show - and they do this on Flash, and they did this on Arrow - is that we do spend time on character. We do spend time on backstory. We do take a moment in between the sci-fi special effects to tell you who these people are, so that when something happens to them, you actually care.

  Wentworth Miller

  Character, Thinking, Arrows

  Source: www.ign.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Artist, Way

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend.

  Sergio Ramos

  Football, Rip, Never Forget

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• I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

  Wentworth Miller

  Thinking, Doors, Currents

  "Legends Of Tomorrow: Wentworth Miller On Whether Captain Cold Is A Hero". Interview with Terri Schwartz, www.ign.com. January 16, 2016.

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• Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.

  Robert Graves

  Religious, Children, Believe

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• The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

  Emmylou Harris

  Music, Soul, World

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• The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Gossip, Age, May

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

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• An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.

  Allen Lacy

  Beautiful, Girl, Weed

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• Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

  Kobe Bryant

  Hero, Forever, Comes And Goes

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• Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

  Scott Steiner

  Myth, Phenomenon

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• I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Dust, Details

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• Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Thinking, Dust

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• I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

  Usain Bolt

  Athlete, Greatest Athlete

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• All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Jobs, Thinking

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• The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Important

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• There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Distance, Collective Memory

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• Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

  Mark Twain

  Together, Looks, Tradition

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.174

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• We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

  Lionel Trilling

  Thinking, Wrath, Hands

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• Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

  Norman MacCaig

  Water, Skins, Caves

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• Because the Internets there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words.

  King Krule

  Men, Video, Watches

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• Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.

  Michael Dell

  Jobs, Prayer, Team

  "Nationwide Outpouring of Remembrance for Apple's Steve Jobs", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2011.

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• If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

  Chief Dan George

  Children, Fall, Way

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