Larger Than Life Quotes

“An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to stand up and turn every challenge into opportunities. An extraordinary teacher teaches how to be larger than life by following your own dreams, own goals and own instincts.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him."

[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]”
― Rex Stout

“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“Larger than life character; a couple of hundred years ago he would have been a pirate. "When in evil company, try to blend in" - that was one of his.”
― Garth Ennis, The Boys, Volume 9: The Big Ride

“Honestly, one of the biggest honors in life is when a child regards you as larger than life. In such cases, be authentically the superhero those little ones believe you to be.”
― Criss Jami