The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?
That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.
Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.
Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?
I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!
I have seen the mystics play there Once or twice but I knew they had a reason Enchantment plays it's cards all right Hand in hand with the working of the seasons Legends can be now and forever Teaching us to love for goodness sake Legends can be now and forever Loved by the sun, loved by the sun
Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful
Facts are fine, fer as they go. . . but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.