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Quotes About Mythical

Just be careful what you say. Don't upset him." "You mean the Grumpus guy?" "It's Krampus." "Just who's this—
~ Brom
Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch
~ Bruce Coville
He swam the seas before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin. In Noah's flood he despised Noah's Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.
~ Herman Melville
down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home
~ Homer
If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.
~ Ilona Andrews
Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, There shall be a badass, and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.
~ Ilona Andrews
Do you know what most people have from their grandmother? A tea set. Or a quilt." Curran smiled. "If your family had a quilt, it would be made out of chimera skin and stuffed with feathers from dead angels.
~ Ilona Andrews
Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.
~ Ilona Andrews
Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.
~ Ilona Andrews
The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.
~ Ilona Andrews
Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity had touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim had sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for
~ Ilona Andrews
Did you blow up a kraken? Maybe. He laughed into the phone.
~ Ilona Andrews
Small talk with the dragon. How are you? Eaten any adventurers lately? Sure, just had one this morning. Look, I still got his femur stuck in my teeth. Is that upsetting to you?
~ Ilona Andrews
And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.
~ George R. R. Martin
If I could play any superhero, I'd probably want to play Wonder Woman. She's pretty awesome.
~ Fiona Gubelmann
It's fucking raining dragons.   Quick
~ Steven Erikson
Every building sported grinning gargoyles, simpering saints or representations of fantastic beasts.
~ Storm Constantine
An incredibly ancient creature, albeit not so much as to qualify for a position in the Parzupheim (although it was no secret he did much of their work for them), he looked as beautiful as raw light.
~ Storm Constantine
What significance could the mythical conflict of angels have to people who daily had to fight for their lives?
~ Storm Constantine
Legends say that Foy banished the cockatrice, but in essence he just hid from her.
~ Storm Constantine
Without taking any action himself, he had become more than a legend.
~ Storm Constantine
This was Paraga's capital and his image appeared on the walls of nearly every building within the citadel. He was a delicate creature with enormous wings like sails. His face was almost feline, with long curling whiskers and enormous eyes with slit pupils.
~ Storm Constantine
Perhaps he had become mythical, and was therefore creating myths.
~ Storm Constantine
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.
~ Lloyd Alexander