Quotes About Legend

Even now, I don't know of any werewolves living in Asia—there are things over there that don't like us, and they can make their dislike fatal.

Every rock and stream is a myth.

De modo que saliste en busca de un mito y encontraste un hombre. Has oído las historias y ahora quieres los hechos reales.

I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened,

Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

So you went looking for a myth and found a man,

No story can move a thousand miles by word of mouth and keep its shape.

I am a myth," Kote said easily, making an extravagant gesture. "A very special kind of myth that creates itself. The best lies about me are the ones I told.

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I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

group, Kvothe emerged from the kitchen and returned to the

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The power of the historian's truth often has a difficult time competing with the power of the right story, even though (or perhaps precisely because) the latter has been hopelessly adulterated with myth and legend,

the deluge, of the tower of Babel, of the destruction of corrupt cities by a rain of fire (reminding us of Sodom and Gomorrah), of the babyhood adventures of King Sargon I. (reminding us of Moses), and of the creation of the world.

source. The legend of the deluge[14] agrees in all important details with the analogous story in Genesis.

True enough, the idea of a personal Devil is as imaginary as a fairy, or an elf, or a hobgoblin;

curious legend is extant respecting this king, to the effect that he was born in a city on the banks of the Euphrates, that his mother conceived him in secret and brought him forth in a humble place that she placed him in an ark of rushes and closed it with pitch that she cast him upon the river in the water-tight ark; that the river carried him along; that he was rescued by a man called Akki, who brought him up to his own trade; and that from this position the goddess Istar made him king.

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

I wasn't crazy—I didn't see us in the same league as Zeppelin.

Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and the imagination, a city that exists as vividly in poetry and painting and music and legend as it does in brick and stone... Just as the physical city of Prague would be unimaginable without its unique topography, without its palaces, its churches, its parks, its streets, and its hostelries, so the Prague of the mind would be unimaginable without its storytellers and the tales they weave.

Not every place has a story

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