If I’m watching my favorite boxer, and he’s just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend. – Nikki Sixx
When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it’s like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity. – Miriam Toews
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating. – Michelle Kwan
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. – Markus Persson
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. – Mary Doria Russell
I don’t think anything really consciously went into ‘Legend’ that was influenced by videogames, but I’m pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in ‘Legend’. – Marie Lu
The line of demarcation between history and legend is too thin to observe while writing; the two overlap each other unconsciously and unknowingly. – Lobsang Tenzin
According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein’s monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots. – Kage Baker
The Aztecs believe they started up in what’s now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That’s a weird legend. – Jerry Pournelle
In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution. – Kage Baker
When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he’d done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero. – Kris Kristofferson
Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He’s like a legend. He’s like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He’s one of the most talented writers of our Latin music. – Juanes
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
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. – John Fusco
When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn’t touch the ‘Dracula’ legend because it’s been done too many times. – Jeaniene Frost
I don’t think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read. – Khaled Hosseini
To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they’ll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as – as myth or legend or even fanciful. – Joseph Bruchac
I’m thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it. – Ralph Stanley
I don’t want to just be a champion, and I’m done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend. – Rafael dos Anjos
