Quotes About Myth

If you've learned anything from the modern superhero myth, if you see a bat around and it bites you, you have a 75 percent chance of ending up a superhero. Otherwise, you'll probably get really sick. But it'd be cool to be a superhero. You don't need to be too afraid.

I believe that a man called Jesus did walk the earth at one time but I don't think he was the superhero that the Bible makes him out to be.

Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form.

As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

If the Americans have Superman, we have Panday.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

People are acting like Keith Thurman has a cape like Superman and can fly.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Black cats cross my path all the time. I'll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.

You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.

I am a very superstitious person.

Nancy is superstitious.

I'm extremely superstitious.

I'm not one of those superstitious people.

I'm a little superstitious.

I'm superstitious.

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.

I am not a superstitious person.

I'm not superstitious at all. I'm not a Russian.

We insist on celebrating lone heroic path-finders, but even the most admired and the most successful inventors are part of a more remarkable supply chain of innovators who are largely ignored for the simpler mythology of one man or one eureka moment.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.