Quotes About Mythical

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

Dryads gathered in knots, hushed, and for once satyrs did not chase them but stood solitary sentinel, horned heads upflung and broad nostrils quivering. Kelpies and selkies hesitated, between horseform and biped shape, their wicked teeth gleaming as they snorted and stamped; among them, night-mares or elfhorses along the shores of the Dreaming Sea—which touches all shores, always—tossed their manes but did not neigh.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, you can take as fact the four words I'm about to speak—though I speak them with some regret, since I enjoy cryptozoological legends as much as the next man: There ain't no Nessie." This

Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends

Into every generation comes a vampire.

Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Vampires are a genre now.

I like vampires.

I think that vampires are sexy. The idea of them being untouchable has been really exciting for people.

I think 'House of Night' blew up the way it did because it offered so many people a fantasy that they can be... vampires are very alluring.

Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

Legend has it that they were never apart for more than a few hours.

Contemporary social forces implore us to embrace a mythical polarity—black or white, right or wrong, good or bad—relying on our nostalgia for simpler times, for our own childhoods.

Opera singers hardly ever got to slay dragons.

Dragons have been known to have staring contests with mountains. They usually win.

Maps? There are no maps. I go by dark ways, unclean ways. If such a map existed, it would be beyond price. Nameless cults would battle in the low places of the earth for such a price. Dreamers would starve themselves in endless visions seeking its location. Such a map would have to be drawn on the skin of a black he-goat, in virgin's blood, with a brush made of dragon's eyelashes. The cartographer would go mad, and it would profane the hands that touched it.

I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?

Most people picture my dog with three heads, but that is wrong, wrong, wrong. He is way cooler than that. Some poets claimed he had fifty heads and some poets called him the "hundred-headed" beast. Others described him with not only multiple heads, but with a serpent's tail, a mane of snakes, and lion's paws. Whatever. I call him awesome.

It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year

Just so you know: if a rakshasa shows up, I left my sword in the car.