#hero

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#crew #heroes #hours #long #such

Walt Disney was my great hero. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#great #hero #walt #walt disney

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#mediocrity

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#kid #never #read #really #stuff

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#help #hero #him #indiana #indiana jones

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#hero #spencer #the-story-of-philosophy #equality

None meet life honestly and few heroically. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#heroically #honestly #life #meet #none

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#complained #deserve #entertaining #heroism #i

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. ↗

— Bono

#heroes #made #mistakes #ones #recovered