““Alyx,” she said, “you're going to be a legend.”
“I already am, Captain,” she said.”
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Chindi (2002), Chapter 34 (p. 471)
“She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.”
As quoted in numerous reports of a response she made to a question by Jenni Falconer during joint interview sessions http://film.guardian.co.uk/venice/story/0,15051,1300356,00.html with Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival (8 September 2004) She, Kidman and others have indicated that the remarks were inaccurately quoted and taken out of context. (see also the Larry King interview)
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Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic
Book 3, Chapter 2 “The Destruction in the Fortress” (p. 260)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
“Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)”
Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer
Source: The Capture
“If you will, it is no legend…”
Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) Austro-Hungarian journalist and writer
Prefix to Altneuland, (1902)
Originally in German: Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen... which was intended to have the double meaning of a strong will shall eventually be realized, and as part of a paragraph ending as a postfix to the book, that this book perhaps will be seen as a true story, but even if not...
The Israeli rightist movement "Im Tirzu" (Literally: 'If you will') is named after this quote.
“Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful”
Michael Moorcock book Elric of Melniboné
Source: Elric of Melniboné
Tanith Lee book The Birthgrave
Book Two, Part I “Across the Ring”, Chapter 2 (p. 151)
The Birthgrave (1975)
Richard Matheson book I Am Legend
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 3
Context: True, he thought, but no one ever got the chance to know it. Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn’t be that — not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that.
And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.