“ We ought to change the legend on our money from In God We Trust to In Money We Trust; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ”
- Arthur Hoppe- Copy
- 183
“ First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories. ”
- Errol Morris- Copy
- 222
“ My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is. ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
- 825
“ From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice. ”
- Robert Emmet- Copy
- 1.1K
“ All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: / That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 732
“ I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 1K
“ I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire. ”
- Roy Orbison- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Authenticity matters little, though — our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. ”
- David P. Mikkelson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. ”
- Paulo Cuelho- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love. ”
- Paulo Cuelho- Copy
- 988
“ A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. ”
- Miles Davis- Copy
- 4K
“ An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 692
“ Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
- 3.3K
“ We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. ”
- Hugo Ball- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. Because The Legend of Bagger Vance had come out and bombed and All the Pretty Horses had come out and bombed. ”
- Matt Damon- Copy
- 3.2K
“ A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend. ”
- Lisa Edmondson- Copy
- 1.7K
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