Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his daughter fell in love… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Essentially, not only do we believe in this myth of 'de-risking', but it has become the one overriding goal; de-risking above growth,… — Andreas Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’? -’A happy one, of course.’ -’Wrong. A… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
People believe that if a hijra curses you, bad things will happen. That God Ram blessed hijras with this power, that our… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We have seen that there are two misconceptions involved in the myth that memory is a thing. One is that memory is… — Kenneth L. Higbee Copy Share Image
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this… — Daniel O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Myth, in any culture, is the working out of present anxieties against a backdrop of a time (and sometimes place) removed from… — M. G. DuPree Copy Share Image
Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem -… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
“To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a… — Leslye Walton Copy Share Image
“The three sons of Bor had no liking for Ymir... At last they attacked Ymir and killed him. His wounds were like… — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“He carried her over the Owl Creek mountain range without stopping,” he said, quietly this time. “He carried her until he reached… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
I do believe in the myth of San Francisco and there is a force, a magical kind of thing there. That feeling… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
