Legend Quotes

• If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

  

  David Strathairn
  • Live
  • Legend

• Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the coming of a Messiah. Until someone proves otherwise, therefore, these stories must be considered nothing more than folk tales consisting in equal parts of legend and wish fulfillment.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Believe
  • Wish
  • Bible

• I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Up
  • Work
  • Movie

• There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Reality
  • English
  • Chic

• Ed Reed is a legend. Ed Reed will always be the standard that, as players, we look up to and strive to be like.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • Up
  • Legend

• The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Women
  • Clothes
  • Designed

• Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • Country
  • Legend

• A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Picture
  • Lives
  • Legend

• It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.

  

  Charles Madigan
  • Party
  • Monster
  • Comes

• Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Soul
  • Christianity
  • Eroticism

• There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm completely obsessed with the Eurythmics. Then it's Aretha Franklin, then it's Lena Horne, then it's Ella Fitzgerald, then it's John Legend, then it's Michael Jackson. Music, to me, is like food, so I feel like whatever I need that day, I can get from a song.

  

  Cynthia Erivo
  • Music
  • Song
  • Food

• Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Apologists

• I tried not to, but I couldn't help it. But, he's like a living legend, and you can't believe he's sitting right in front of you, you know? You grow up listening to him, and he's got so many great songs, and all those feelings just piled up on me.

  

  Camile Velasco
  • Listening
  • Living
  • Him

• I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I'm just food for a superhero. He'll eat up my death and get the energy he needs to become a legend.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Superhero

• The man, to me, ... is a legend.

  

  Eddie George
  • Man
  • Legend

• Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • War
  • Hate
  • Stones

• History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • History
  • Goal

• There is only one legend. That's me.

  

  Roberto Duran
  • Legend

• No one has ever been able to pinpoint the trigger." "But?" "But it is legend that ambrosia only rises when-" She held her breath. "- an archangel loves true.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • True
  • Legend

• When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with it’s path high above, and it’s two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of a gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • Friends
  • Gold
  • Reach

• I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Music
  • England
  • Fairy Story

• Listen to me carefully. You can become a legend. But it starts today!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Listen
  • Legend
  • Starts

• I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

  

  Mike Wallace
  • News
  • Legend
  • Improve

• When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Legend
  • Print

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