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Quotes About Mythical

So let sleeping wyverns lie.
~ Roger Zelazny
one can conceive of very ancient myths, but there are no eternal ones; for it is human history which converts reality into speech, and it alone rules the life and the death of mythical language. Ancient or not, mythology can only have an historical foundation, for myth is a type of speech chosen by history…
~ Roland Barthes
Truth to tell, what is invested in the concept is less reality than a certain knowledge of reality; in passing from the meaning to the form, the image loses some knowledge: the better to receive the knowledge in the concept. In actual fact, the knowledge contained in a mythical concept is confused, made of yielding, shapeless associations.
~ Roland Barthes
The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
~ Lewis Carroll
One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
~ Lewis Carroll
And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
~ Lewis Carroll
Alcuni miti sono storie vere che raggiungono un significato mitico perché le persone di cui raccontano sembrano più grandi della vita e sembrano vivere la loro vita più intensamente delle persone comuni.
~ Linda Seger
legendary. 'Oh no!
~ Lindsey Davis
I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.
~ Helen Mirren
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.
~ Albert Einstein
Why did Erasmus[…] transform the image of a woman yielding to the temptation of an enormous storage jar into the image of a woman carrying with her a small pyxis [box] ?" Dora and Erwin Panofsky, Pandora's Box: The changing aspects of a Mythical Symbol, p. 18
~ Dora and Erwin Panofsky
Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins.
~ Jim C. Hines
Hyperion and
~ Joan Holub
A nixie, poor ignorant girl child, is a sprite of the water.
~ Anna Elizabeth Bennett
Geryon was a monster everything about him was red
~ Anne Carson
as vivid and fabulous as a unicorn...
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.
~ Anne Ursu
'Baahubali' is my favourite project.
~ Nora Fatehi
There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
~ Peter O'Toole
I'm very into fantasy films.
~ Alexandra Daddario
I do like fantasy films.
~ Teresa Palmer
I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.
~ Lupita Nyong'o