Mythology Quotes - Page 13

• 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 to allow the type of action of the writer’s room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

  Eric Kripke

  Want, Rooms, Plot

  "Creator Eric Kripke Discusses The Essential Supernatural: On the Road with Sam and Dean Winchester". Interview with Amanda Dyar, www.dreadcentral.com. December 18, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  Tea Obreht

  Thinking, Young, Ran

  4 Copy quote

• Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

  James Surowiecki

  Victim, Company

  "All Together Now" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

  Steve Sabol

  Years, Nfl, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.

  Sonya Walger

  People, Events, Sci Fi

  5 Copy quote

• I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

  Grant Morrison

  Growing Up, Firsts, Celtic

  "Grant Morrison Talks Comics, Magic, Life and Death". Interview with A. David Lewis, www.publishersweekly.com. August 11, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity through all the forms of time ... and it is the function of art to make that visible to you ... then you have really have ended life in the world as it is lived by those who only think only in the historical, concretizing terms. This is the function of mythology.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Thinking, Historical

  7 Copy quote

• The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

  Arthur Miller

  Kings, Play, People

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Real, Fire, Hell

  Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. ...: With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings,”, p.522

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

  John Wesley

  Dog, Pain, Revenge

  7 Copy quote

• One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.

  Bruce Timm

  Character, Roots, Greek

  "Bruce Timm Dishes on Wonder Woman". movieweb.com. January 16, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beyond the mythology, Wonder Woman gets to play with several dichotomies. It's Amazon culture versus man's world; ancient mythological times versus the contemporary world; and, of course, all the male and female issues.

  Bruce Timm

  Men, Play, Issues

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.

  Mel Gibson

  Book, Together, Stories

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

  Sam Keen

  Culture, Who We Are, Good Family

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Memories, Moving

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

  W. H. Auden

  Cooking, Meteorology, Would Be

  6 Copy quote

• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  Weili Dai

  Team, Men, Winning

  "Women! Embrace your inner geek" by Weili Dai, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

  Augustus William Hare

  May, Ancient, Substitutes

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.423

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Suits, Riding, Bikers

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

  Dian Fossey

  Kings, Wildlife, Adults

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  Anne Roiphe

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  4 Copy quote

• Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

  Anna Thomas

  Cooking, Different, Stories

  7 Copy quote

• Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.

  Adrienne Mayor

  War, Ideas, Years

  6 Copy quote

• When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.

  Mary Ruefle

  Book, Fall, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Divine Feminine, Humanity, Influence

  4 Copy quote