Legends Quotes - Page 2

• Las leyendas son material que hay que moldear, y no hechos que hay que registrar.

  Hervey Allen

  Hechos, materiales

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• We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

  Hugo Ball

  Beautiful, Heart, Age

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• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Enid Nemy

  Glasses, Office, Architecture

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• Por aquí pasaron franceses, españoles e ingleses, dejando cada uno su leyenda; y una civilización brillante y más o menos feudal, con su aristocracia y sus esclavos, ha partido con el sistema económico sobre el que descansaba.

  Hervey Allen

  Civilización, Dejar, Partió

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• But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Men, Play, Alex

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

  Sidney Poitier

  Jackie

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• Es curioso reflexionar, por ejemplo, sobre la notable leyenda de la Piedra Filosofal, una de las creencias más antiguas y universales, cuyo origen, por mucho que nos remontemos en los registros del pasado, probablemente no rastreemos su verdadera fuente.

  Frederick Soddy

  Real, Past, Example

  Frederick Soddy (2004). “The Interpretation of Radium and the Structure of the Atom”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• [On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Should Have Known, Be A Man

  Look Magazine, 27 Nov. 1967

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• I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

  Mark Knopfler

  Ovación

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• Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

  Joseph Jarman

  Jazz, Wells

  interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• Pronto el silencio habrá pasado a la leyenda. El hombre ha dado la espalda al silencio. Día tras día inventa máquinas y aparatos que aumentan el ruido y distraen a la humanidad de la esencia de la vida, la contemplación, la meditación.

  Hans Arp

  Tecnología, Hombres, Esencia

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". p. 231, 1972.

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• Todas las grandes leyendas son plantillas para el comportamiento humano. Yo definiría un mito como una historia que ha sobrevivido.

  John Boorman

  Stories, Behavior, Myth

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• He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Respect, Nice, Believe

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• Me propongo derribar los mitos sobre mí mismo y llegar a la auténtica verdad sobre la leyenda que es Batman.

  Bob Kane

  Real, Myth, Real Truth

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• A medida que nuestra lengua se desvanece y muere, las leyendas doradas de los siglos lejanos se desvanecen y pasan. Nadie ve su influencia en la cultura, nadie ve su poder educativo.

  Douglas Hyde

  Educational, Passing Away, Culture

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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• A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

  Edward Sapir

  Age, Events, Information

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.395, Univ of California Press

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• I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

  Denis Johnson

  Jesus, Silly, Writing

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• Un elemento de exageración se aferra al juicio popular: los grandes vicios se engrandecen, las grandes virtudes también; los incidentes interesantes se hacen más interesantes, las leyendas más suaves, más suaves.

  Walter Bagehot

  Exageración Es, Interesante, Vicios

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1858). “The National Review”, p.463

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• The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Growing Up, Memories, Thinking

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• The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

  Anais Nin

  Niños, Padre, Hombres

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• In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

  John Legend

  Artist, Judging, Wonder

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• The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

  John Legend

  Reality, Fire, Play

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• Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

  Douglas Hyde

  Tree, Strange

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• Puede que sea una leyenda viva, pero eso seguro que no ayuda cuando tengo que cambiar una rueda pinchada.

  Roy Orbison

  Funny, May, Helping

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• Hay una antigua leyenda que advierte de que, si alguna vez llegamos a conocer nuestro verdadero origen, nuestro universo se destruirá al instante.

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Ancient, Should

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