Folklore Quote by Eric Kripke Download Open image “I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.” — Eric Kripke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folklore Legends Lifelong Obsession Urban
In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart. — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
If I had a worldview, and I don’t know if I do, but if I did, it’s one that’s intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic. — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love. — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis. — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis. — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share
“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair, And Niamh… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these… — Charles Burnett Copy Share
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
![“If I had a worldview, and I don’t know if I do, but if I did, it’s one that’s intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that’s the only thing that gives life meaning. Religion and gods and beliefs — for me, it all comes down…” quote by Eric Kripke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f9c/eric-kripke-14863_belief_if-i-had-a-worldview-and-i-don-t-know-if_57576.jpg)
