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Quotes About Mythical

When I was growing up we didn't have TV in our house which is perhaps why I work in TV because it seemed such a mythical thing!
~ Vick Hope
I do love mythology.
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.
~ Jonathan Nolan
Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.
~ Puneet Issar
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective consciousness. But like many of the myths associated with colonialism, the reality is very different.
~ Antonio Guterres
We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In bravery against the Maid.
~ Christine de Pizan
temos arte e achamos que os sérios dilemas éticos são mais bem abordados por Shakespeare, Tolstoi, Schiller, Dostoievski e George Eliot do que pelas histórias morais míticas dos livros sagrados.
~ Christopher Hitchens
serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books.
~ Christopher Hitchens
and in the middle of this lake is a big giant owl. Like five stories tall, which is large, in my book, for an owl.
~ Christopher Moore
And that continued for quite a while until the adventurer admitted that it IS an accepted fact among monsters and giants of all stripes that Englishmen are delicious.
~ Christopher Moore
Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?
~ Christopher Paolini
Dragons, like wagons, Have tongues. Dragons, like flagons, Have necks. But while two hold beer, The other eats deer!
~ Christopher Paolini
am colored red and blue and yellow and every other hue of the rainbow. I am long and short, thick and thin, and I often rest coiled up. I can eat a hundred sheep in a row and still be hungry. What am I? A dragon, of course, she said without hesitation. No, a woolen rug.
~ Christopher Paolini
A dragon who was not free to do as he or she wished was not a dragon at all.
~ Christopher Paolini
Do elves use horn bows as well? You're so strong, a wood bow would shatter if it was made heavy enough for you." "We sing our bows from trees that do not grow." And then she walked away.
~ Christopher Paolini
This is Teenage madness. Trapped in a room knowing there's more outside. Trapped listening to a teacher talk about Hemingway as if each sentence and word had mythical importance. Trapped knowing she is in the room with me.
~ Travis Thrasher
The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
~ Umberto Eco
Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.
~ Umberto Eco
The primitive races of mankind were terrified by the hydra that flew upon the water, by the dragon that belched fire, by the griffin, that aerial monster with wings on an eagle and a tiger's claws — fearful creatures beyond the control of men. But man sets his traps, the miraculous traps conceived by human intelligence, and in the end he captured them.
~ Victor Hugo
is a MYTHical MANchild Of rather dubious distinction Always AGITATING COMBINATING and ELEVATING his game He dribbles fakes then takes the ROCK to the glass, fast, and on BLAST But watch out when he shoots or you'll get SCHOOLed FOOLed UNCOOLed 'Cause when FILTHY gets hot He has a SLAMMERIFIC SHOT It's Dunkalicious CLASSY Supersonic SASSY and D O W N right in your face mcNASTY
~ Kwame Alexander
Poppy: Um, can we cross running water? James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends.
~ L. J. Smith
It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.
~ Laini Taylor
You're a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." "Beautiful and full of monsters?" "All the best stories are.
~ Laini Taylor
As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...
~ Laini Taylor