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.
There is such a history and such a mystique around the name of Ferrari and the success that it has had. The whole imagery and legend of the red cars and what they mean to the world of automobiles and racing itself. It is hard to imagine F1 without them.
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
Michael Irvin, he’s definitely a legend, but I don’t know if some of the guys my age and younger really know about him.
We have amazing people that help us backstage, and Arn Anderson is someone I always like to look to. He’s a legend in his own right.
When you win the World Cup, you start to become a legend – for the people around the world, you are different.
I just want to be treated like an ordinary legend.
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… we’re adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that’s the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
Of course I will turn professional at some stage. Then I want to be a world champion and finish up a legend and be out of the sport by the time I am 27.
The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and unknowingly.
When a club legend becomes your manager, he automatically gets the attention of the players, purely because he had been there and done that.
When I got to know Margot Robbie on the set of ‘The Legend of Tarzan,’ I learned just how important it is to be lovely to everyone you meet.
This is like my dad’s race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn’t race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.
For me, acting as Raja Ravi Varma, a legend, is not just exciting but very challenging.
I want to be the next legend.
I wrote ‘Young Guns’ on spec because I really believed that the young age of these guys historically, the whole legend of Billy dying at 21, would attract a young staple of stars, and that would be the game-changer.
I have to do my job, so then yeah, maybe in time I can be a legend. But to have those positive sounds from the fans and the legends that talk about me, I’m grateful for that.
They call me a legend in my own time, because there were so many queens gone that I’m one of the few queens left from the ’70s and the ’80s.
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
I don’t want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.
Pharrell is a legend.
It is a great honor for me to work with Cho Yong Pil, who is a living legend.
I always wanted the Acura Legend Coupe.
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.
Legend has it that when Franco’s troops crushed Catalonia in 1939, relegating it for the next thirty-five years to abuse and neglect, one of his generals was asked what more he could possibly want now that he had Barcelona.
I’m flattered anybody would call me a legend.
A really fun fan moment was when a fan gave me a copy of ‘Legend’ that he had turned into a functional clock!
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.
Part of me is stuck in my childhood in the Eighties. I actually watch ‘The Neverending Story,’ ‘Labyrinth,’ and ‘Legend’ over and over again. Also, ‘Willow’ and ‘The Goonies.’
My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India’s independence, which included spending four years in prison in Mahatma Gandhi’s movement. I still remember the conversations we had together, many of them while playing chess.
There is such a history and such a mystique around the name of Ferrari and the success that it has had. The whole imagery and legend of the red cars and what they mean to the world of automobiles and racing itself. It is hard to imagine F1 without them.
What makes a star or a movie into a legend? I don’t know. For instance, when Robert Taylor and I made ‘Party Girl’ in 1958, nobody was particularly excited about it. Now, it’s considered by thousands to be a classic. There are ‘Party Girl’ cults.
‘I Am Legend’ was a rich, emotional experience where you could be scared and cry, and there’s some wish fulfilment.
Thierry Henry, without a doubt – he’s an absolute legend.
I think of legacy: I want plaques on the wall. I want a farm for my dad. I want an orphanage, preferably two, named after my mother. I want to positively and tangibly help the lives of millions of people and die a legend.
I’m interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I’ve made a film called ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’, which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in ‘I Am Legend’ and ‘Yes, Man’, but ‘Potter’ is unique. There’ll never be anything like ‘Potter’ again.
A lot of people know Sir Alex Ferguson was the heart of Manchester United. He is a legend.
I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I’m going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, ‘There is a coaching legend.’
Demian Maia, he’s a legend. He’s a veteran in the game. He knows how to fight. He’s been through so many five-round fights. He’s headlined a lot of cards, fought Anderson Silva for the title, fought Tyron Woodley for the title. He’s a veteran, he knows how to fight, and he’s always training. He’s a jiu-jitsu wizard.
If a legend fight comes up, or if a fun fight comes up that makes sense, and the fans want to see it, then we’re going to do it. We’re not going to be afraid to do those fights.
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.
Everybody watches Bruce Lee. That’s a legend. He’s the man!
My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. ‘Guys and Dolls,’ ‘How to Succeed,’ ‘Cactus Flower,’ ’40 Karats,’ ‘Can-Can,’ ‘Happy Hunting,’ ‘Reclining Figure,’ it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows’ kid. That was my self-esteem.
Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.
Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.
I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, ‘Legend of Grimrock 2,’ which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.
I love the WrestleMania, and I love my family WWE. The WWE know I am the legend forever.
There is only one legend. That’s me.
John Legend is brilliant. I feel he may be my best collaborator when it comes to delivering that undeniable soulful sound, and he does it in such a classy way.
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she’s a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
Everyone’s second team in Italy is Leicester. In Thailand, the first team is Leicester. I’ve received letters from Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil – everywhere ‘Leicester, Leicester, what a legend.’
When I grew up my role model was Will Smith. I wanted to have my own TV show, do films where I can do comedy and big films such as ‘I Am Legend’.
I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud.
Dickie Davies was a legend. And he’s a really nice man, too.
I think the ultimate sign of an icon or legend in any sport is the ability to elevate their teammates.
Wenger is a legend for Arsenal. He changed the game in England and he changed how Arsenal look.
I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he’s still very present on TV because he’s commenting for Formula One.
