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Quotes About Myth

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
~ Marat Safin
I'm the legend. I always be the legend.
~ The Iron Sheik
I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
~ Yohan Blake
There is only one legend. That's me.
~ Roberto Duran
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
~ Maynard James Keenan
When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.
~ Miriam Toews
Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.
~ Lauren Bacall
You don't create legends out of other legends.
~ Shaggy
People think that lemon is good for the voice, but it dries it out.
~ Jill Scott
Yes, you know Luke Skywalker isn't going to die in issue #3. But that doesn't mean you've seen every Luke Skywalker story there is to tell.
~ Jason Aaron
If people believe that the Geto Boys really do stuff like on 'Mind of a Lunatic,' they must also believe there's a real Freddie Krueger and a real Micheal Myers.
~ Bushwick Bill
The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
~ Pete Hamill
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I seem to have excalibured this knife.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
f you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I remember passing the tomboy, sitting in her special place of punishment opposite the bully. She was blazing with her deed, as if she had actually been touched by a god. And I thought that this confirmed all my theories: a child in her position is open to any heroic myth I care to use; she is inward with folktales; she would feel the force of any magical or divine intervention.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I asked you for Hobbits on a grail quest, and not one Hobbit have I seen!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
And you call yourself a god! Tanamil fetched himself up onto one elbow and said, very earnestly, a very strange thing. I never called myself that, he said. Neither I nor any of the Undying ever made that claim. It is a claim men made for us, and that is how we came to be bound.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
If an expectant mother stepped over a rope on the ground or under a clothesline, the umbilical cord would tangle during childbirth. Mothers-to-be should
~ Diane Ackerman
A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past. It's called a 'prophecy,' Urruah said. You may have heard of the concept.
~ Diane Duane
Todos los niños mitifican su nacimiento. Es un rasgo universal. ¿Quieres conocer a alguien? ¿Su corazón, su mente, su alma? Pídele que te hable de cuando nació. Lo que te cuente no será la verdad: será una historia. Y nada es tan revelador como una historia. Vida Winter, Cuentos de cambio y desesperación.
~ Diane Setterfield
Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever. The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement.
~ Don DeLillo
She missed the autumn weekends at somebody's country house, leaf-fall and touch football, kids tumbling down grassy slopes, leaders and followers, all watched by a pair of tall slender dogs poised on their haunches like figures in myth.
~ Don DeLillo
Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom. ... Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. You thought he would protect you. I understand completely.
~ Don DeLillo