Mythology Quotes

Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.

I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

You can't doubt so much, Psyche

Swords can’t solve every problem.

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

So Beckendorf was pretty popular?" Leo asked. "I mean-before he blew up?

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

I said hello to the poodle.