#legends

Already he had achieved a tremendous success, as the great wings of an Elder had lifted him above the impossible, and were carrying him ever closer to the possible. ↗

— Stephen Zimmer

#stephen-zimmer #dreams

What do you see in him anyway?” “He doesn’t leave the toilet seat up.” I smiled bitterly ↗

— Jayde Scott

#funny #funny

The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon. ↗

— Josh Gates

#heroine #legends #inspirational

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#history #legends #on-fiction #nature

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? ↗

— John Adams

#christianity #fables #legends #religion #religion

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#tragedy #urban-legend #urban-legends #dreams

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#come #legends #lot #me #my time

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep. ↗

— Anna Sheehan

#legends #sleeping-beauty #young-adult #beauty

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#die hard #does #hard #legends #rarely

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. ↗

— John Howe

#architecture #art #culture #enduring #europe