Necessity makes heroes of us all.
Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.
There are no heroes. . . in life, the monsters win.
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack
If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.
One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 911. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.
Times have changed and so have heroes and heroines, but the core of what makes readers happy has remained the same: Does the material touch you, resonant with you, stick with you? Do you feel yourself in the pages, see yourself walking in another person's shoes, hear the voices as they speak? Are you in love with the way they are in love?
Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.