Quotes About Legend

According to legend, after the suppression of the Knights Templar in 1312, surviving Templars went into hiding in Scotland where they eventually resurfaced as Freemasons. An "Unknown Master" received these Templar secrets and fashioned seven degrees linked to knightly titles.

Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

I was shocked after hearing the news of Milkha Singh's death. He was a great athlete... an inspiring personality.

The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

Bob Rondeau - he'll never know this - but he was so instrumental. He is a legend to me and had a major impact in my life.

Maurice Richard c'est tout le Québec qui est debout. Qui fait peur et qui vit.

Stewart Granger

De strigis vero, quae non sunt, nulla quaestio fiat (Sobre las brujas, ya que no existen, no se harán indagaciones).

Que ser tan malo este hippie que se decía Hijo de Dios! ¿Y por qué entonces no respetaba la obra de su padre? ¿O es que las serpientes, los zorros y los cerdos nacieron por generación espontanea a lo Lamarck? ¿No los hizo pues su papá el quinto día de la creación? Lo que pasa es que el hippie de Galilea ni tuvo padre como decía, sino madre: la puta leyenda que lo parió.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

Film and TV V.I.P, seeker of the peace, part time chandelier cleaner, a legend in his own time, oppressor of champions, soldier of fortune, world traveller, bonvivant, all round good guy, international lover, casual hero, philosopher, wars fought, bears wrestled, equations solved, virgins enlightened, revolutions quelled, tigers castrated, orgies organised, bars quaffed dry, governments run, test rockets flown, life president of the Liquidarian Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mythology is what never was, but always is.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

Pelé fue el jugador más completo que he visto nunca. Magia en el aire. Rápido y potente, corría más que cualquier otro jugador. Parecía un gigante dentro del campo. Perfecto equilibrio y visión imposible.

now appreciate that that was a very Bob Dylan thing to do, to turn the tables completely. Bumping into Bob Dylan? What's that like? It's like bumping into Willie Shakespeare. I knew I was on hallowed ground, if not on solid ground. I was not worthy to tie the laces of his moccasins, but I caught my balance and challenged him to a chess game. That's right—a chess game. Bob Dylan had invited me backstage, to

To adjudicate the matter, he turned to a Silicon Valley legend, a former Columbia University football coach named Bill Campbell.

As Kipling said, that's another story...

There's an old saying, 'Look not into the heart of the Ohmu.' They say if you do, you'll never come back...

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

'She's a Mystery to Me' was released in 1987, when I was 11 or something, and I absolutely adored the song. This song was written by Bono and The Edge, and the story goes that Bono woke up with the tune in his head, then thought that the only voice who could sing this song is Roy Orbison.