Age Quote by Tom Wolfe

Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps…

— Rick Riordan

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have…

— William Butler Yeats

THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of…

— Rick Riordan

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the…

— George Saunders

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

— David S. Goyer

All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

— Louis Leterrier

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman was invented…

— Brian Azzarello

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition…

— John C. Wright

I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian,…

— Vera Nazarian

When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun…

— Bill Maher

You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

— Christine O'Donnell