“Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I have in my heart? I have hope. And I'll share it with the world.” — Amanda Bouchet Copy Share Image
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Simple. Atlantis can't be found." He scoffed at her. " You're the second person to tell me that in less than an hour. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Norse mythology is mystifying and fantastic and totally confusing, but you can draw a lot of inspiration from it. — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
“Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Copy Share Image
The 'teavangelicals' of the 21st century have flipped the script, turning their ideas about Christianity, social responsibility, and care for the downtrodden… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s:… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche is a marvelous antidote to all fundamentally anti-Biblical efforts to turn mythology into a kind of Bible, and that is the… — René Girard Copy Share Image
God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do… — John Steakley Copy Share Image
The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
“A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though… — James Howell Copy Share Image
“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“The mythology of Doctor Who has built into it the continuation, evolution, and longevity of the character’s mythical qualities through his regenerative… — Anthony S. Burdge Copy Share Image
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t made for Griffin, and he wasn’t made for me. We were made for each other.” — Amanda Bouchet Copy Share Image
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
“Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.” — Joanne M. Harris Copy Share Image
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image