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
“According to Greek mythology, humans were orginally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Co-writing the 'True Blood' comic is a dream come true both as a performer on the show and as longtime comic fan.… — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
“Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to… — Assotto Saint Copy Share Image
“In mythology, lightning represents either the loss of ignorance or punishment for those who overstep their bounds. I used two bolts since… — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong 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
I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,… — Vera Nazarian 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
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
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
Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
“Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning… — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first album, I was reading Joseph Campbell - he's this philosopher who writes about mythology. That inspired the… — MO Copy Share Image
“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. .… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,'… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Courting a princess does come with a few perks. Such as an immortal madwoman chasing us to the ends of the realm."… — K.V. Wilson Copy Share Image
There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and,… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia.… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology.… — Thomas Boswell 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
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“There are multiple roads. You alone choose the ones you take. Some lead to the same destination via different pathways. Others lead… — Amanda Bouchet Copy Share Image
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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![“It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the world and he started reading a lot of mythology, which most people are not that familiar with.” quote by Ron Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4b/ron-clements-54148_familiar_it-was-really-john-s-musker-idea-to-begi_312411.jpg)
