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Quotes About Legend

There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more. There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.
~ Cressida Cowell
The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
~ Cressida Cowell
You must remember that here in Norway we are used to that sort of thing. There are witches everywhere.
~ Dahl, Roald
forced to realise that Jobs was, for all his visionary genius, deeply flawed, odd and capricious …' Davin O'Dwyer, Irish Times 'This is an authorised but brutally honest account of the life of a legend of our age' Herald Sun 'Isaacson has done an outstanding
~ Walter Isaacson
It's a testament to Isaacson's skill as a biographer that readers can at last obtain the picture of Steve Jobs as a human being rather than a legend . . . anyone who's ever wondered how so very much about the technology landscape has changed so fundamentally in just thirty-five years, owes it to themselves to read this book." —TUAW.com "Walter Isaacson's book is an unflinching biography of a manifestly
~ Walter Isaacson
While a student in McCollum's class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher's all- time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry in the class. Stephen Wozniak, whose younger brother had been on a swim team with Jobs, was almost five years older than Jobs and far more knowledgeable about electronics. But emotionally and socially he was still a high school geek.
~ Walter Isaacson
All however agreed, that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and to drink of the waters of the well or even approach its brink, was ominous to a descendant of that house, as for a Grahame to wear green, a Bruce to kill a spider, or a St. Clair to cross the Ord on a Monday.
~ Walter Scott
Better to be a legend than a star.
~ Charles Yu
The Bermuda Triangle coughs up myths like a consumptive asthmatic. Missing vessels are blamed on aliens. Atlantis. Time rifts. Ghost ships. Magnetic anomalies. Methane eruptions. People go mad. People lose their minds. Sometimes I think I've been in the Bermuda Triangle my whole life.
~ Chelsea Cain
She had become something wrathful and insane, an urban legend waiting to happen.
~ Cherie Priest
It is said that the first storyteller crept at night to listen to the gods talking in their sleep — so each tale collected contained the breath of gods.
~ Author Unknown
Vampire: a toothy phlebotomist.
~ Terri Guillemets
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
~ Larry Dossey, M.D.
He proved a master at broadcasting his own legend, exaggerating his exploits as a fighter; among North Korean peasants, stories circulated about how Kim could render himself invisible during battles
~ Hampton Sides
I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me!
~ Hank Aaron
My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
~ Hank Williams
K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
~ Harlan Ellison
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
~ Harlan Ellison
I once knew this guy. Went by the name ShakesSPHERE. Greatest writer who ever lived, only he never wrote anything down.
~ Harmony Korine
Maybe somebody will come along and be, like, a Tolkien for horror.
~ Harry Turtledove
Vampires don't sparkle.
~ Heather Brewer
Halloween season. The season of the witch, so many thought. And, in legend, the night when souls could return to earth... And try to linger on. But the dead weren't really returning, the living created evil.
~ Heather Graham
Robin Hood just called, he wants Sherwood Forest back.
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
Orion's butt used to be a tuba," said Rigel, "and that's why it makes those noises.
~ Laurie Frankel