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Quotes About Legend

there grew up around the campfires stories of a great silver stallion seen galloping over wind-packed snow way up on the Ramshead Range; of a ghost horse that drank at the Crackenback River; of a horse that all men thought was dead appearing in a blizzard at Dead Horse hut and vanishing again; of the wild stallion cry that could only be Thowra's. But no man knew where the son of Bel Bel roamed
~ Elyne Mitchell
Narrano le vecchie istorie che quando Twashtri creò il mondo, rimase molto perplesso nel creare la donna e dovette pensare a lungo, prima di scegliere gli elementi necessari per formarla. (Le due tigri)
~ Emilio Salgari
She is the flowering branch of the peony, Richly-laden with honey-dew. Hers is the charm of the vanished fairy, That broke the heart of the dreamer king In the old legend of the Cloud and Rain. Pray, who in the palace of Han Could be likened unto her, Save the lady, Flying Swallow, newly-dressed In all her loveliness?
~ bai li ii
Contrary to its legend, Paris does not offer many distractions; or, those distractions that it offers are like French pastry, vivid and insubstantial, sweet on the tongue and sour in the belly.
~ baldwin james xi
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
~ bankhead tallulah ii
The nice thing about a round table is that it can seat an almost infinite number of people, as King Arthur found out long ago.
~ Barbara Cohen
Dragonsbane, they called him. Slayer of dragons. Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.
~ Barbara Hambly
Fate as a character in legend represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Today she told me about the Crow King.
~ Barry Lyga
I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
~ Edmund Hillary
There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.
~ Andrew Dominik
Certainly when 'Legend' came around, I was very anxious to get it because I immediately recognized it as something worth doing.
~ John de Lancie
Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the Jerusalem man,' among others - but my favourite has to be 'Waylander': Clint Eastwood with a crossbow and the same 'Make my day, punk' attitude.
~ Neal Asher
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
~ Mac Davis
The friendship I had with Elvis began to take shape in 1968 when I was recording in Memphis. I'd record during the day, and Elvis would send one of his guys over to bring me to Graceland at night. Everything you've heard about Graceland during Elvis's glory days is true and then some.
~ Bill Medley
We played with AC/DC. There are actual recordings of us doing 'Johnny B Good' together.
~ Rick Nielsen
There is such a history and such a mystique around the name of Ferrari and the success that it has had. The whole imagery and legend of the red cars and what they mean to the world of automobiles and racing itself. It is hard to imagine F1 without them.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
~ Noah Taylor
I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.
~ Johnny Rivers
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.
~ Mick Rock
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.
~ Tom Stoppard
All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.
~ Richard Burton
As a kid, I remember hearing about Boba Fett before I even saw Boba Fett.
~ Dave Filoni
To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
~ Geezer Butler