Mythic quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
  • The mythic journey is always about selflessness. -- Chris Pine
  • I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content. -- Arthur Boyd
  • Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. -- Orlando Bloom
  • There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. -- Orlando Bloom
  • Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. -- Mary Roach
  • In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. -- Angela Carter
  • Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds. -- Rand Paul
  • I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. -- Chris Abani
  • Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. -- Fiona Shaw
  • What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story. -- Pete Townshend
  • I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. -- Judy Chicago
  • Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon. -- Jon Krakauer
  • I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels. -- Kenneth Branagh
  • Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are. -- Matt Reeves
  • Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. -- Greg Bear
  • Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. -- Chris Van Allsburg
  • Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart. -- Carrie Coon
  • Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind. -- Janet Maslin
  • My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. -- Carol Leifer
  • What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes. -- Tom Hanks
  • I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game. -- Steve Sabol
  • I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us. -- John C. Reilly
  • What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time. -- Noah Feldman
  • In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature. -- Alan Ball
  • I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. -- Rian Johnson
  • The mythic is everywhere. -- Phil Cousineau
  • What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. -- Mel Gibson
  • Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials. -- Anna Journey
  • I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction. -- Peter Benchley
  • The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture. -- Steven T. Katz
  • I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' -- Gwendoline Christie
  • Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won. -- Terri Windling
  • You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. -- Chris Abani
  • There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time. -- Johnny Depp
  • Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. -- Chris Hedges
  • God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison. -- John Eldredge
  • Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. -- William Kennedy
  • Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth. -- Carl Jung
  • Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. -- Donna J. Haraway
  • Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality. -- Clyde S. Kilby
  • I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind. -- Laurie Foos
  • Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital? -- Timothy Leary
  • Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages. -- Julian Schnabel
  • As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not. -- Stewart Brand
  • When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you. -- Michael Meade
  • We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead. -- Michael Crichton
  • Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits and ever eager to extract all that was possible from that limited horizon. -- Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness -- Gary Snyder
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share