Quotes About Legend

For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.

Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.

You have to respect Zidane, he's in the history of football.

Xavi is one of the best players in the history of football.

The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Even almost a century after her death, Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress whose extraordinary personality, flamboyant life and passionate nature became a legend in her own lifetime, remains the byword among most people as the supreme theatrical star.

If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.

Legend has it that in an argument with a cardinal, Napoleon pointed out that he had the power to destroy the church. "Your majesty," the cardinal replied, "we, the clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last eighteen hundred years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

When Helen deserted her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta, and eloped with the handsome Trojan prince Paris

This had been the number of Spartans killed during the defence of the pass of Thermopylae in 480 BCE

The war lasted ten years, so the story goes.

All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth.

Somewhere, thought Scholscher, in some remote thicket, the corpse of a man was probably rotting away so that his legend might be useful to a cause, an ideology.

For months we had been talking of him and him alone, and yet it was difficult to believe in his existence — he was more like a legend to us — and quite a few of us were convinced that the authorities had invented him, him and his elephants, to distract attention from the political unrest that was the real cause of trouble in the Oule country.

You ever hear of an old-time actor named James Coburn?

He began: "Jesse James was a lad who killed many a man. He robbed the Glendale train. He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor, he'd a hand and a heart and a brain." The man strolled the room, coming so near Bob that Bob pulled back his crossed legs as the man sang the chorus in a higher pitch. "Oh, Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life, three children, they were brave; but that dirty little coward that shot Mister Howard has laid Jesse James in his grave.

Corvus Corax is Latin for raven," she said. "I asked her what the significance was. She said that the raven is one of the smartest birds, entirely black to blend into the night. There's a legend, dating back to medieval times, that England could never be conquered as long as there were ravens at the Tower of London.

to this day, there are ravens at the Tower of London. They're fed by the Ravenmaster of the Yeoman Warders.

To my dogs," he announced, "I am a legend.

Another intense relationship was kept under wraps. No letters to Judge Lord were published for half a century, and by that time the renunciatory legend was so firmly established that Emily's delight in the Judge's visits and her candour about desire have been underplayed.

a feud over who was to own the poet: in the first instance, who was to have the right to publish her works; in the second, whose legend would imprint itself on the public mind.

Abyss has no biographer—', Emily Dickinson said. Truth is bottomless, and she herself almost invisible. After her death, letters from correspondents were burnt according to her instructions and soon legend replaced living fact.