#heroes

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#age #done #ever #heroes #last

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#goes #great #greatness #half #heroes

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#big #grew #had #heroes #his

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#heroes #households #made #nation

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#because #behind #cast #film #find

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#accessible #action #action film #action films #better

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. ↗

— Robert Shea

#destroyed #element #greatest #greatest strength #heroes

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#could #heroes #himself #honest #i

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#hang #heroes #i #long #out

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#grow #heroes #i #like #now