Quotes About Legend

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.

was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis . . . .

The Titans were gone. They had clashed their last.

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

Robin Hood might not have existed. Maybe there never was a band of Merry Men waiting in Sherwood Forest for King Richard's return. But I'd like to think it happened. We've seen him in other times and places. Some people still stand up for what's right, some people do protect the helpless, some people fight for justice – and that's what makes the story of Robin Hood true.

Sometimes I wish Jim Morrison were still alive, because I'd love to see a concert in which "The Doors" opened up for "The Cars.

The wild success of the "Ducase" had two large and lasting effects on America. The first was that it discouraged future Nazi attempts at spying within the borders of the United States. The second was that it made J. Edgar Hoover a legend.

La vida no es contable, y resulta extraordinario que los hombres lleven todos los siglos de que tenemos conocimiento dedicados a ello, empeñados en contar lo que no se puede, sea en forma de mito, de poema épico, de crónica, anales, actas, leyenda o cantar de gesta, romances de ciego o corridos, de evangelio, santoral, historia, biografía, novela o elogio fúnebre, de película, de confesiones, memorias, de reportaje, da lo mismo.

And then earlier than that there were the crusades. The crusades were totally fucked. Richard the Lionheart, who had the heart of a lion as well as his own. He ripped it out of the lion, and the lion was left with a bicycle pump and not much to do.

sea, and was killed. The sea into which he fell was called the Aegean ever after.

Venus herself graced their marriage with her presence, but what happened after that we do not know, except that Pygmalion named the maiden Galatea, and that their son, Paphos, gave his name to Venus' favorite city.

He appears oftener in the tales of mythology than any other god.

Where is it? I asked, willing him to tell me. He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it. East of the sun and west of the moon, he said.

This ain't no Bigfoot. It's the Bighead! The Bighead is back!

some things were just meant to be good stories

Di Stéfano was one of the greatest footballers ever. He had such great balance.

?tiu despre Eminescu m?rturii directe care contrazic foarte multe imagini despre el. Venea elegant ?i purta foarte bine, cu dezinvoltur? ?i prestan??, fracul. Iat? o prim? negare a legendei conform c?reia era tot timpul neglijent ?i i se plimbau insecte pe guler. Pe urm?, dansa foarte bine vals ?i era pl?cut în conversa?ie.

A goddess who had dragged herself out of the ocean then become an ordinary old woman.

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

I never saw Pele, but I watched Maradona, for seven years I saw every game. He's not one of the best, he's the best.

Everybody watches Bruce Lee. That's a legend. He's the man!