The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his "chick magnet.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I want to read The Mark of Athena and The House of Hades by Rick Riordan!-Carter” — Carter Ebert Copy Share Image
This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“You'll get fired if anyone finds out about us!" "So many rules in this century," Vane muttered.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of… — Rob Van Dam Copy Share Image
There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into… — Enya Copy Share Image
“I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts… — Adam Nevill Copy Share Image
A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“There was balance, harsh and violent like the noxious air in a swamp. But balance, nonetheless. Then somewhere in the fickle mists… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human… — Jan Siegel Copy Share Image
“Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
“The Fall, so often considered a terrible thing, is a fall into experience; like falling of the epileptic to earth, it may… — Caitlín Matthews Copy Share Image
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“It was work, day after day of it. Witchcraft is the same. I have laboured for centuries and still I have not… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“I want to hate you, to loathe you, to detest you, but for all my attempts, the need to touch you is… — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free! — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism. — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image