“I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination." D'Molay the… — M.Scott Verne Copy Share Image
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as… — Ted Simon 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
“When he heard these words, Loke ceased to look like a god, for the fury and hate of a devil were in… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth 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
Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
“Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
“Once every hundred years, two souls are brought together through the veil of time. They are deemed the chosen ones by the… — Mary Morgan Copy Share Image
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?” — Amie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
