You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’.
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams. . . There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.
The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.
Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our lead characters can only look like somebody else. Heroes look like all of us. We see ourselves in each others' stories. We see who we are. We see who we want to be. Sometimes we see who we don't want to be. And through that we have a greater understanding of ourselves and acceptance of each other.
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield and we'd sit on those. Our heroes weren't the drivers, they were the pit crews. That's because we were local, and we knew what was going on.
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?
The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.
Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.