Quotes About Legend

The teller of the tale is nothing compared to the tale itself.

This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires.

Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? Four minutes. I tongue the gun barrel into my cheek and say, you want to be a legend, Tyler, man, I'll make you a legend. I've been here from the beginning. I remember everything.

So, Ariadne was the babe with the ball of twine and the plan.

You see, the flowers on cherry trees used to be white. Pure white, like snow. So why do you think cherry blossoms turned that pale crimson shade? It's because they drink the blood from the corpse underneath the tree.

That boy said there's a corpse buried beneath each cherry tree. That's why they bloom so prettily. He smiled when he said that. Who was he?

Clifford D. Simak did not dedicate his books very often, but he dedicated this one—to his dog. He loved dogs, and he made them prominent features of a number of his stories—and in this case he made it clear that the dog in question, Scootie, was the model for Nathaniel, who can be found in "Census," the third episode in this book, and who became legend to succeeding generations of dogs.

The first question, of course, is whether there ever was such a creature as Man. At the moment, in the absence of positive evidence, the sober consensus must be that there was not, that Man, as presented in the legend, is a figment of folklore invention. Man may have risen in the early days of Doggish culture as an imaginary being, a sort of racial god, on which the Dogs might call for help, to which they might retire for comfort.

Reminds me of that urban legend about hearing voices in the white noise of a television tuned to a station that's off the air

Bimini Road in the waters off the Bahamas.

As late as 1701, a Bordeaux ship's captain was able to persuade his employers that he had lost his cargo off Newfoundland to a fire-breathing dragon looming out of the deep.

Once upon a time and long ago, in fact so long ago that I couldn't have been there, and I wasn't there, but I'll tell you anyways: once upon a time and long ago...

on their faces an expression like the letters of a legend, written around the base of a statue praising duty, gratitude, fidelity, love of England...

One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx.

Jehan snorted. "He's a legend in his own mind. Pay no attention to him." Sav barked a laugh. "Envy isn't a good look for you, Highness." "And you may kiss my royal ass, peasant.

Mama used to say it was a faerie's kiss." Gideon stepped toward her where she sat on the old wooden chair. He gave a mild shrug. "Something made you and those others born with that mark different from other women. Who's to say it wasn't faeries?

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

O Walid, todos decian que estabas inspirado por los djins. Yo soy el djin que te observaba al nacer

Word is you guys have one of the best cyber-crime units in the country." "The best. It's headed up by Mark Wolfe. He's a legend in law-enforcement circles.

We are here making myths that are, at the same time, absolutely true.

Know ye yet the edda? Know ye yet it all?

they are suspected of dismembering and devouring the body of Amelia Earhart

In 1513, only six years before Magellan undertook his circumnavigation, Juan Ponce de León set out to find the Fountain of Youth.