Mythology Quotes · Page 13

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of…

— Wynton Marsalis

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

— Virgil

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

— Werner Herzog

“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.”

— Martin Shaw

“It was work, day after day of it. Witchcraft is the same. I have laboured for centuries and still I have not…

— Madeline Miller

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

— Rick Riordan

“I want to read The Mark of Athena and The House of Hades by Rick Riordan!-Carter”

— Carter Ebert

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

— Jeremy Taylor

God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's…

— Thomas Boston

Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do…

— John Steakley

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures…

— Kate Thompson

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other…

— Cassandra Clare

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,…

— Elizabeth Hand

“Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.…

— Christine Warren

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s:…

— Deborah Harkness

“Nietzsche is a marvelous antidote to all fundamentally anti-Biblical efforts to turn mythology into a kind of Bible, and that is the…

— René Girard

“Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread…

— Homer

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one…

— Dennis McKinsey

Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…

— Hannes Alfven

“I thought you of all people would understand.” “Understand what? Being an idiot?” That seems to surprise him enough to add something…

— Amanda Bouchet

“The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over.…

— Lauren Hammond

I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense…

— Tanith Lee

“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

The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely…

— Brian Urquhart

“You'll get fired if anyone finds out about us!" "So many rules in this century," Vane muttered.”

— Priya Ardis

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

— Andrew Lang

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

— Robin Williams

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

— Swami Vivekananda

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

— Antoine Fuqua

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

— Wole Soyinka

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

— Terry Eagleton

“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”

— Bryan Sykes

“I want to hate you, to loathe you, to detest you, but for all my attempts, the need to touch you is…

— Nely Cab

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

— Patrick Collison

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

— Thomas Boston

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

— Leopold von Ranke

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

— Steve Sabol