Mythical Quotes

107 Mythical quotes by 96 unique authors

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself… — Carl Jung
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away… — Marc Chagall
Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration... — Leonard Bishop
Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity,… — H P Lovecraft
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I… — Luther Burbank
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by… — Friedrich Durrenmatt
I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.' — Zac Efron
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an… — Jeffrey Kluger
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the… — Joyce Carol Oates
I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal. — Yoko Ono
The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S.… — Neil Peart
We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without… — Morrie Schwartz
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may… — Rebecca Solnit
Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission." "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered. "Selling them on… — Cassandra Clare
...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now....… — Lian Hearn
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman. — Keith Richards
I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures… — Anne Rice
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or… — Jean Baudrillard
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this… — Albert Einstein
I don't go to mythical places with strange men. — Douglas Adams
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load… — Peter McWilliams
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of… — Primo Levi
she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist."… — Jodi Picoult
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett

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