Mythology famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.
-- Amber Benson -
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
-- Anish Kapoor -
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
-- Anish Kapoor -
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
-- Anne Rice -
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
-- Antoine Fuqua -
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
-- Bel Kaufman -
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
-- Bernard Malamud -
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious
-- Carl Jung -
The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.
-- Devdutt Pattanaik -
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
-- Eric Kripke -
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.
-- Gaspard Ulliel -
I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.
-- George Lucas -
I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.
-- Hedi Slimane -
Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
-- James Surowiecki -
Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
-- Leopold von Ranke -
It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.
-- Martin Hengel -
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
-- Mary Augusta Ward -
Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.
-- Michael Scott -
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
-- Northrop Frye -
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
-- Northrop Frye -
There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.
-- Peter Higgs -
Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
-- Richard Dawkins -
The mythology of the New Testament, also, is not to be questioned with respect to the content of its objectifying representations but with respect to the understanding of existence that expresses itself in them.
-- Rudolf Bultmann -
I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.
-- Stephen Sommers -
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
-- Tea Obreht -
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
-- Tennessee Williams -
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
-- Thomas Bulfinch -
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
-- Tobias Wolff -
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
-- Zsuzsanna Budapest -
Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.
-- Patricia Piccinini -
If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
-- Ray William Johnson -
Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.
-- Gerald Hausman -
Darth Maul dies and it's okay. And maybe he'll be picked up later and another actor will play him and that's okay. However if they call me up and they need him for this or that and they want me to play him, then that's okay too. I do actually love this character. I feel strongly about him. I feel badly for him and if there's anything more I can contribute to him or the larger Star Wars mythology I will continue to do so and if my time has come then I will watch as a fan the way I have since I was born.
-- Samuel Witwer
