I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I was influenced by my mother to a great extent and I came to know about Hindu mythology from her. — Pooja Bedi Copy Share Image
This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves 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
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology. — George Lucas 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
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology. — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will… — Jennifer Saint Copy Share Image
In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle. — William Shatner 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 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
Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
