#hero

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#batman #clearly #culture #does #else

God is a hero. ↗

— Stacie Orrico

#hero

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. ↗

— George Orwell

#comes #heroic #human #human beings #pinch

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse. ↗

— John Osborne

#god #heroes #high #ideas #made

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. ↗

— James Otis

#good #good citizens #hero #life #make

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero. ↗

— Clive Owen

#action hero #certainly #hero #i #myself

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. ↗

— PSY

#freddie mercury #hero #lifetime #mercury #model

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#andy #andy warhol #art #art world #artists

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#came #give #hero #things #too

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#heroes #makes #surmounting