Legend Quotes

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)

There's only one legend. That's me.

Roberto Durán

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Jean Arp

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

Robert Jordan

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

Christopher Lee

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Roy Orbison

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

Tallulah Bankhead

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

Maynard James Keenan

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

David Lee Roth

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Francis Bacon

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history for in legend as having died of laughter. (Max Beerbohm)

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Miles Davis

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Jim Harrison

Underground, the stars are legend.

Catherine Fisher

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

Peter O'Toole

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

Ben E. King

All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.

Dave Winfield

Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.

Suetonius

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

Theodor Adorno

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Freddie Mercury

From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia
Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand
And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time
East and west of the Rio Grande.
Well, he started with a bank in Colorado
In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid.
And his age and his size took the teller by surprise,
And the word spread of Billy the Kid. (Billy Joel)

When the legend is retold, it mirrors the reality of the time, and one can learn from studying how various authors have attempted to retell the story.

C. J. Cherryh

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

Bob Kane

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

Bob Kane

Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

Rush Limbaugh

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