Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film… — Janet Maslin Copy Share Image
“I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place. — Vincent Schiavelli Copy Share Image
The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture. — Steven T. Katz Copy Share Image
