Best Mythology Thoughts
290 Mythology quotes by 211 unique authors
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Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want…
— Eric Kripke
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I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an…
— Eric Kripke
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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
— Northrop Frye
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
— Ernie Isley
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,…
— Lord Byron
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Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's…
— Walter Kirn
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For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.
— Gaspard Ulliel
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I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.
— Stephen Sommers
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Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a…
— Charles de Lint
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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
— Jimmy Carter
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I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of…
— Brendan Fraser
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I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
— Antoine Fuqua
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'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.
— Neil Gaiman
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I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm…
— Terry Gross
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries,…
— Umberto Eco
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The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
— James Earl Jones
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If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
— Maynard James Keenan
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Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.
— Maynard James Keenan
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the…
— Jack Kevorkian
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In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That…
— Jessica Lange
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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's…
— John Lennon
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I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in…
— Kellan Lutz
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