Quotes About Legend

There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown.

It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come.

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.

Et, comme Ulysse, il rentrera chez lui et vivra vieux (j'ignore s'il est mort aujourd'hui) – seul inconvénient pour en faire un héros de grande diffusion.

Further, Columbus believes not only in Christian dogma, but also (and he is not alone at the time) in Cyclopes and mermaids, in Amazons and men with tails, and his belief, as strong as Saint Peter's, therefore permits him to find them.

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I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

Recordó los versos que describían a Tristán e Isolda en el bosque: "Hay una espada dispuesta entre los dos, clara, brillante y desnuda".

I am a big admirer of Paul Scholes, he is one of the best players of his generation.

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

No one beats The Legend Killer.. Thats why I'm the greatest in this business!

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

What do I think about the story? he asked himself. I don't even know if we've got the right version. But no, that's not the point. The right version would presumably be true, and a legend doesn't have to be true, it has other things to do.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things that pleased and startled me. 'Are there dragons?' she asked. I said that there were not. 'Have there ever been?' I said all the evidence was to the contrary. 'But if there is a word dragon,' she said, 'then once there must have been dragons.

As a result of Malory's plangent and often elaborate prose, the song of Arthur has never ended. Le Morte d'Arthur inspired both Milton and Dryden with dreams of Arthurian epic, and in the nineteenth century Tennyson revived the themes of Malory in Idylls of the King. William Morris wrote The Defence of Guenevere , and Algernon Swinburne composed Tristram of Liones. The Round Table was reconstituted in the libraries of nineteenth-century England.