Quotes About Legends

Working with Robin Williams, and Bob Hopkins, and Dustin Hoffman and you're talking about 'gods,' really, in our industry. You look at legends everyday. It was so impactful to me as a young artist.

There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.

Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.

The Cricket All Stars was lot of fun. To see all those legends sitting there together, talking cricket and respecting you for who you are, was an amazing feeling. My father was slightly jealous of me.

When I was smaller, I always looked up to Zidane, Messi, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo.

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up worshiping, basically. It's crazy to be able to still work there.

Of course, when dragons sit around the campfire at night or tuck their children into bed, they tell the story of the dragon who cried Boy!

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

I love most 70's song writers, not so much outlaw, but really those 70's guys. I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, those guys.

I was suddenly sure I wanted to be part of a journey toward insights so fundamental that they would never change. Let governments rise and fall, let World Series be won and lost, let legends of film, television, and stage come and go. I wanted to spend my life catching a glimpse of something transcendent.

Rigorously independent, the Fremen did not consider themselves true Imperial subjects. They viewed the Harkonnens as interlopers, temporary occupants who would be cast aside one day, in favor of another ruling House. In time, the Fremen themselves would rule here. Their legends foretold this.

Deftly handled, myths and legends can become tools or weapons, while mere facts are just . . . facts.

THE MEASURE OF THE MAGIC. Read on for an excerpt from THE MEASURE OF THE MAGIC The conclusion to Legends of Shannara

Le leggende e i miti che non esistevano ieri riprenderanno vita nel mondo di domani. Dopo un sonno di secoli, esseri malvagi, spietati e astuti si risveglieranno. L'ombra del Signore degli Inganni comincia a scendere sulle quattro Terre.

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.

I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.

My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.

My first memory of the Garden, it's probably like any other kid in New York: it's either watching the Knicks win the championship or Muhammed Ali against Joe Frazier.