(179 quotes found)
“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
Salman Rushdie
“I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.”
Britney Spears
“Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.”
Daniel Bell
“Now, there's been a persistent legend and a lot of slogans, and the formation of societies for the fostering of Franco-American friendship, which have had some effect, but there is a strong admiration in this country for the culture of France, and generally speaking I think the French find the Americans have been stout supporters of them in many of their periods of distress.”
David Bruce
“[It is not an ode to the '60s R&B legends and their lead singer.] A lot of these songs are our responses to how we thought people would feel about us a year from when we were writing them, ... When you suddenly get successful, people are very interested in being your muse.”
Pete Wentz
“Scientific knowledge brought into being ever more wonders. The legends of my ancestors were shamed into silence. No longer did one have to meditate for years to be able to speak with someone across the sea. Some Germans had stretched a sea-cable from England to India! And wires of this sort were proliferating from here to there all across the face of the earth. Now the whole world could observe the actions of a single person. And one could watch the activity of the whole world.”
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
“As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember,”
Neil Armstrong
“I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I used to feel so proud to be there with what I thought at the time were where the legends and heroes has stood and had sung. And I've been in the business so long, I've almost become one of them. So it's like I'm standing in my own footsteps.”
Dolly Parton
“The Legend of Zorro.”
Keanu Reeves
