Urban Legend Quotes

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor.

I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives, destroying lives everyday. And I know that you know it's a little thing called Chupacabra.

I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact.

The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...

If someone says that they saw a Sasquatch, they're either lying or they are stupid! Now stop lying about the Jewpacabra before stupid people start believing you!

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

This town [Washington DC] can only operate successfully on myth.