Quotes About Legendary

Jackie Chan is the best storyteller on this planet.

I'm one of the greatest storytellers ever.

Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, born 1774, was called "the Devil" on many occasions. The charming Italian could speak at least 39 languages and, by some accounts, had been tested in 72. As arguably the world's most famous hyperpolyglot, he was also systematic.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical. I doubt if you get another 'Wu-Tang Clan.' That might be harder than getting the new 'Jackson Five.' Certain groups you only get one time, and we just happened to be that group.

If I had to describe myself in one word, 'Hercules.'

Someone like Raj Kapoor is born once in 100 years. He was a one-man circus all by himself.

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.

A rock star does not age!

Be careful, this is the greatest fencer since the death of the Wizard of Corsica. Do not burgle.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never have been the motivation for himto put down his private roots on Obersalzberg.

And they spoke gleefully of the legendary Monday morning when Mr White arrived late and hungover, ordered the class to write an essay on the dangers of the demon drink, put his feet on his desk, and fell fast asleep.

What makes someone mythic is not whether or not he lived, or lived well, but whether or not he was larger than life. Mythic heroes were – and are – outrageous and outstanding. They are phenomenal. They distil some collective ideal or fantasy. That's why we can speak of 'the myth of John Lennon', but not 'the myth of John Major'. And it's also why Theseus made it and Lycurgus didn't.

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

To the younger generation," writes Carl Schurz, "Abraham Lincoln has already become a half mythical figure, which, in the haze of historic distance, grows to more and more heroic proportions, but also loses in distinctness of outline and figure.

Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.

I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.

I remember spending one summer being utterly obsessed with trying to get the legendary unreachable 'Ice Key' from 'Banjo-Kazooie.'

I don't want to just make music as I want to be legendary. I understand it has to be commercial as I have to feed my family. I am in between these two marks and they are not many people in this space. I want my work to my valued even if my face is forgotten.

So wary as to disappear for centuries and reappear but never caught, the unicorn has been preserved by an unmatched device wrought like the work of expert blacksmiths.

I want the serve of Goran Ivanisevic, the heart of Lleyton Hewitt, the mind of Pete Sampras and the ground strokes of Roger Federer.

Any legendary fighter you have ever seen or anyone who is talked about for a long, long time who has shown their heart in the ring and won over crowds and really destroyed their opponents in the ring, that's who I am.

Sasanian monarchy and the fabled Kayanid

There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.