(179 quotes found)
“As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”
Helen Hayes
“The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin”
Bette Davis
“Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit."”
Joel Rosenberg
“It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.”
Charles M. Madigan
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ''the rat race'' is not yet final.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“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
“It's better to burn out, then to fade away.”
Neil Young
“A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.”
David Lee Roth
