Quotes About Mythical

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

I always gravitated a bit towards more of the fantasy, and 'Lost Girl' really fits in with that.

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy food, or else you will always be hungry.

It's very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs -- dinosaurs are nature's Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It's not just being weirdly shaped and being able to eat Buicks. It's that they are real.

The quasi-mythical competitive "free market" provides an overpowering metaphor for a free and efficient economy, but it has little to do with real-world capitalism. As Charles E. Lindblom put it, conventional wisdom continually "stumbles" and is incapable of grasping capitalism as a system, "because the market's dazzling benefits half blind it to the defects.

Dragons don't bother with introductions.

It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur.

Dragon droppings?" Per asked in awe, as if that were the most fantastic part of their tale.

Dragons. A sky full of dragons.

I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon.

He is not my lover. He is far more than that to me, far more precious. I am the White Prophet and he is my Catalyst, and we are come here to change the course of time. I am here to see that Icefyre lives.

We dream of carving our dragon.

Dragons at a distance are amazing and noble creatures of legend. My closer experience of them makes me suspect they'd burp nobly after consuming me.

We dream of carving dragons

And it confused me to think that the cloven-footed ones could have so many marvelous creations.

But I called, as we came near, to one who stood beside the water's edge, asking him what men did in Astahahn and what their merchandise was, and with whom they traded. He said, Here we have fettered and manacled Time, who would otherwise slay the gods. I asked him what gods they worshipped in that city, and he said, All those gods whom Time has not yet slain. (from Idle Days on the River Yann)

The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....

As he stood in the red light of the oil-lamp, strong, tall, and beautiful, his long black hair sweeping over his shoulders, the knife swinging at his neck, and his head crowned with a wreath of white jasmine, he might easily have been mistaken for some wild god of a jungle legend. -Son, she said at last,—her eyes were full of pride,—have any told thee that thou art beautiful beyond all men? Hah? said Mowgli, for naturally he had never heard anything of the kind.

It is not any common earth, Water or wood or air, But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye That you and I will fare.