Quotes About Legend

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

It was that moment, perhaps, that our lives changed. Not before in Scyros, nor before that still, on Pelion. But here, as we began to understand the grandness, now and always, that would follow him wherever he went. He had chosen to become a legend, and this was the beginning.

He rolled onto his side to face me. A stray lock of gold fell half into his eyes; he blew it away. "My name is Achilles.

Minos, king of Crete, son of Zeus and a mortal woman.

Heracles would kill his wife again for a chance to come along.

Her skin, we suddenly remembered, was rumored to be gilded, her eyes dark and shining as the slick obsidian that we traded our olives for.

Achilles' miracle was his speed.

i thought, this is what achilles will feel like when he's old. and then i remembered: he will never be old

His eyes opened. 'Name one hero who was happy

The Myrmidons, they had begun calling themselves, ant-men, an old nickname of honor. Another thing Achilles had had to explain to me: the legend of Zeus creating the first Phthians from ants.

there is a story you should hear.

two Christian princesses who were pursued by undesirable pagan lovers—lovers who professed to be unable to live without their beloveds' beautiful blue eyes. To rid herself of the unwanted attention, Medana supposedly plucked her eyes out and threw them at her suitor's feet; Triduana was slightly more inventive, and tore hers out with a thorn, then sent them to her suitor on a skewer.

The evidence for any sort of Arthur, however, king or otherwise, is hopelessly thin and inadequate.

run through by a spear-wielding St Edmund,

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

Can no one imagine an incompetent Legend?

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

I hated the Beatles when they first came out because they were so goddamn cheery. I didn't listen to popular music from 1964 until 1976, when I first heard the Sex Pistols. Finally a new antihippie sound that could piss off every musical legend that came first.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

To be a hero holds honor but to be a legend is to live forever.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?