Quotes About Culture

We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.

Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

Myth is sometimes more important than history.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.

I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.

Mythology is part of our heritage, part of our identity at times because anywhere in India you will find the name of Rama or Krishna in one or the other form.

Even as a kid, I don't think I bought into a lot of the mythology about Canada.

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

I am inspired by Indian mythology.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

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.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

I like mythology - anything historical.

I was influenced by my mother to a great extent and I came to know about Hindu mythology from her.