#Heroes

"Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice"people, not heroes."

"The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto."

"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."

"We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise."

"I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor."

"Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes."

"Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it."

"She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable."

"The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become."

"Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it."

"They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy."

"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."

"when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you."

"Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

"I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things."

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."

"Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model."

"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."

"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale."