Mythology Quotes - Page 15

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

  Ernie Isley

  People, Greek, Bakers

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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  Sam Keen

  Memories, People, Giving

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  May, Wells, Respectable

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

  Juliet Marillier

  Children, Thinking, Style

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

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, Cost, Servant

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

  Steve Sabol

  Team, Games, America

  "Steve Sabol dies at age 69". www.espn.com. September 19, 2012.

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• One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Would Be, Stories

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Liars, Writing

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• We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Sense, Substitutes, Resorts

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, People, Important

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• I said hello to the poodle.

  Rick Riordan

  Poodles, Hello, Said

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• For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Reality, Cinema, Grandiose

  Source: collider.com

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• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Years, Horizon, Who We Are

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• A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Memorial, Dying

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• I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

  Grant Morrison

  Growing Up, Firsts, Celtic

  "Grant Morrison Talks Comics, Magic, Life and Death". Interview with A. David Lewis, www.publishersweekly.com. August 11, 2008.

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• FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.

  Sonya Walger

  People, Events, Sci Fi

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• The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.

  Daniel Quinn

  Ocean, Men, Space

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.74, Bantam

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• The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized, I can take everything i did like about that mythology and anything I didn't like, I didn't have to; because until a real Vampire stands up and says, 'you've got it wrong,' it's anyone's game.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Real, Games, Vampire

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

  Rick Riordan

  School, Bus, Field Trip

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• Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  World, Soil, Exhausted

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.14, 谷月社

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• Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Real, People

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.8, New World Library

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• The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.

  Lord Acton

  Philosophy, Light, Political

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.7, VM eBooks

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• When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states.
  This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come.
  That is the country that we are going to be celebrating.
  And those are the people that we are one with.

  Joseph Campbell

  Country, Moon, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.41, Anchor

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• Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

  James Surowiecki

  Victim, Company

  "All Together Now" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2005.

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• NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

  Steve Sabol

  Years, Nfl, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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