Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given control, I would really… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely… — Brian Urquhart Copy Share Image
“Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I'm sure we could argue a… — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over.… — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Anybody who's a mythology ... there's always a fear. That's why we don't like people whose skin color is different, whose eye… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Time slipped and slid around him, unanchored by any fact that could be verified. Perhaps it did not matter. 'Where does our… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
“As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: 'It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift,… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S.… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the… — Cole J. Davis Copy Share Image
“The Canopic Inversion by Stewart Stafford In nascent light, their nose-rings entwined, Like a brazen Hathor daughter, Funnelled to market and auction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch… — Colin Bord Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili… — Lani Wendt Young Copy Share Image
![“The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a35/paul-laffoley-7077_book_the-whole-thing-that-dante-alighieri-did_82075.jpg)
![“[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical…” quote by Ron Clements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38b/ron-clements-54148_bigger_john-musker-got-me-reading-the-mythology_145840.jpg)
