Mythic Quotes

63 quotes by 56 authors

It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's… — Neil Gaiman
What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. — Mel Gibson
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white… — Tom Hanks
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails… — John C. Reilly
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality.… — Steve Sabol
Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. — Sylvester Stallone
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order… — Pete Townshend
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we… — Donna J. Haraway
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the… — Orson Scott Card
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder:… — Roland Barthes
Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in… — Gary Snyder
As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero… — Jodi Picoult
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.… — Mary Zimmerman
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than than that. They just were. Adult stories never made… — Neil Gaiman
As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic… — Stewart Brand
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern… — Chris Abani
The mythic journey is always about selflessness. — Chris Pine
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. — Mary Roach
My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place. — Vincent Schiavelli
The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture. — Steven T. Katz

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