They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods? — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.” — Christina L. Farley Copy Share Image
“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.” — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. — Barbara Steele Copy Share Image
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
In India we have a readymade world of fantasy available in Indian mythology. And this is why we see such a surfeit… — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Lifting his head, he whispered against her wet, throbbing lips, “Too much?” Wasn’t that sweet, Consider even. But oh, hell no. She… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“We fell in love with that little peep-show projection on the inside of an iris, pictures that amount to nothing more than… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“He shook his head again. “I’m afraid I don’t feel much of anything these days. Especially not hope. I have no time… — Josh Strnad Copy Share Image
“They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I feared my soul was dying, being replaced by the monster I would become.” — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
“She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“an uncertain mythology in which one hears the names when the wind stops of all the false gods” — Jean Follain Copy Share Image
“How do you know?” I look at him like he’s one Centaur short of a herd. “Soothsayer, remember? I know stuff.” — Amanda Bouchet Copy Share Image
Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology. — Richard King Copy Share Image
“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
“Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow.” — Tai Odunsi Copy Share Image
Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist — Anish Kapoor 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
The 3 stages of man: He believes in Santa Claus. He doesn't believe in Santa Claus. He is Santa Claus. — Rick Sutter Copy Share Image
“Women! Whether human or divine, what man can ever truly understand them?” — Debra Holland Copy Share Image
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology. — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
