Quotes About Legend

I am to wrestling what Elvis was to rock n' roll!

In wrestling, if there is a legend, Roddy Piper is a legend, no doubt about it. Nobody was ever like he was.

All you need to do is look down at my boots. My pro wrestling boots that I've worn for the past year have the Triforce symbol from 'Legend of Zelda' on them.

Me and Jeffrey Wright were hanging out a lot. We go surfing a fair bit when he's on the West Coast. He's a legend.

The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.

According to Celtic myths, there were once magical vessels that "satisfied the tastes and needs of all who ate and drank from them."* These myths led to the legend of the Holy Grail. The modern-day equivalent of the Holy Grail is the business plan.

Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds... - Algernon Blackwood

Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.

Ulrich the Axe, famed for his bloody deeds among Christians and pagans alike.

Witch-cursed, legend-haunted Arkham, whose huddled, sagging gambrel roofs and crumbling Georgian balustrades brood out the centuries beside the darkly muttering Miskatonic.

For the people of Ulthar were simple, and knew not whence it is all cats first came.

That legend—and it is more legend than historical fact—inspired a race in 1896 at the first modern Olympic Games over approximately the same route. Only 17 runners participated in that first race. In 2010, 20,000 runners appeared for the 2,500th anniversary celebration.

The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.

and from that day, even till now, all the storks have been called Peter. The

Lata Mangeshkar is Lata Mangeshkar. Nobody can ever touch her.

Legend' is a stylised film. The character I play is a complete egoist. He cannot tolerate anyone touching him or slapping him. Whenever anyone antagonises him, he becomes cruel. That's how the 'war' between the hero and him starts. It's a solid meaty break for me!

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.

Casillas has an impressive track record at Real Madrid.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to make up for lack of engineering expertise.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.