Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
I am Anil Kapoor's daughter, so I am always compared with legends. It is a part and parcel of my life.
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
Juno MacGuff: Yeah, I'm a legend. You know, they call me the cautionary whale.
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
One Stab: Every warrior hopes a good death will find him.
Colonel Ludlow: Don't talk at me boy as if I've never seen a war!
Colonel Ludlow: There will be no more talk of wars in this house, DAMN IT!
I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
We poetically construct our identity as human beings, together with our values, largely through reciprocal relationships with animals. They provide us with essential points of reference, as well as illustrations of the qualities that we may choose to...
I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a ...
You will stay and help defend our cave against all comers, protect those weaker than yourself and honor our code. Always use the sword to stand for good and right, never do a thing you would be ashamed of, and never let your heart rule your mind ... ...
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, see...
Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening ...
The ripe, the golden month has come again, and in Virginia the chinkapins are falling. Frost sharps the middle music of the seasons, and all things living on the earth turn home again... the fields are cut, the granaries are full, the bins are loaded...
[first lines] Max: I still ask myself if I did the right thing when I abandoned his floating city. And I don't mean only for the work. The fact is, a friend like that, a real friend - you won't meet one again. If you just decide to hang up your sea l...
Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.
