History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world… — Stephen H. Furrer Copy Share Image
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was way into 'Voltron,' Ray Harryhausen: anything with giant monsters, I was really into. Even dinosaurs - for a while, I… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist.… — Kelly Carlin-McCall 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
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
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
“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 think the show [Grimm] became a little more procedural following the pilot, and I didn't know that would happen. Recently more… — David Giuntoli Copy Share Image
“Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?" "I… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to… — Glenn Quinn Copy Share Image
So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
“Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet… — Philippa Ballantine Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our… — Shane Carruth 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
“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 have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Studios are so used to digital now and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance,… — Don Scardino Copy Share Image
“Then the woman in the bed sat up and looked about her with wild eyes; and the oldest of the old men… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
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