When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity?… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“The myths of Hylas, Adonis, Lityerses, and Linus describes the annual mourning for the sacred king of his boy-surrogate, sacrificed to placate… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“The picture of the bacchante who stands motionless and stares into space must have been well known. Catullus is thinking of her… — Walter F. Otto Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Darth Maul dies and it's okay. And maybe he'll be picked up later and another actor will play him and that's okay.… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Just when I was coping with the idea that I’d necked with a werewolf,” she muttered. “Just when I was beginning to… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity;… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“I had to find Mr. Brentwood. And I had to save him. Zeus, Inc. had saved the world 50 years ago when… — Robin Burks Copy Share Image
I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
“She groaned and rolled her eyes. “Do you ever not get your way?” He stepped closer to her, his chest an inch… — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
“So how did it go? I sat on the toilet and ran a hand over my hair. Um... it's still going, I… — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
Obi-Wan understands that the best thing he can do is contribute something positive to the world around him and then to leave.… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
Many researchers do feel that humankind may have to face another Great Cleansing, such as the Great Flood of world mythology. Again,… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
“Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“And no small part of this unpredicted miracle was the curious innocence of these people in the very midst of their freedom… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“This is the mighty and branching tree called mythology which ramifies round the whole world whose remote branches under separate skies bear… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“When we first found each other, I was a mess, full of conflict and fear. His steadfastness and unwavering faith in me… — Amanda Bouchet Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In either mythology, ancient Irish or modern Jungian, we see the struggle to arrive at a workable arrangement with the forces of… — Peter O'Connor Copy Share Image
“PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real,… — Jasper Fforde 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
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
