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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart. -- Cornelia Funke
I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal. -- Yoko Ono
I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.' -- Zac Efron
Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men. -- MyAnna Buring
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. -- Elliott Abrams
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. -- Jacques Ellul
Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves. -- Dolph Lundgren
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening. -- David Lloyd
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. -- Teresa de Lauretis
We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people. -- Morrie Schwartz
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
I want to be in 'The Hobbit.' I love fantasy and mythical adventure films. I believe in fairies and angels. I believe in nature's spirit, that there are other realms, other planets, life forms. -- Julia Sawalha
As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real. -- Candice Millard
The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold. -- Neil Peart
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. -- Karen Armstrong
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis. -- Michael Sheen
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals. -- Tamora Pierce
When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me. -- George Smoot
I loved all fantasy, and I always thought that the ideal job as a performer and an entertainer would be to take on a mythical character, you know? Make someone up. Give them a voice, a mannerism, whatever. I always thought that that was the coolest way to do. -- Erica Cerra
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast. -- Jeffrey Kluger
A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want. -- Jack Canfield
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days. -- John le Carre
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. -- Lois Lowry
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. -- William S. Burroughs
The unicorn is a mythical beast, -- James Thurber
A controlling man, surely a mythical creature? -- E. L. James
People want to build musicians into mythical beings. -- PJ Harvey
I don't go to mythical places with strange men. -- Douglas Adams
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. -- Anais Nin
There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding. -- Julia Golding
Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once. -- Brandon Sanderson
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman. -- Keith Richards
Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there. -- Kevin Whately
no one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family ... -- Barbra Streisand
I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. -- Stephenie Meyer
My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. -- Jodi Picoult
I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover -- Rumi
Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land. -- Danielle Trussoni
If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? -- Tina Brown
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. -- A. P. Herbert
What's so wonderful about being 6'3". What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men? -- Regis Philbin
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief -- Jacques Ellul
What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men? -- Regis Philbin
To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones) -- Cassandra Clare
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. -- Giacomo Leopardi
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. -- Rem Koolhaas
I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway. -- Anthony Hopkins
People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society. -- Marguerite Duras
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes -- Murray Edelman
I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine. -- Brendon Urie
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels. -- Joseph Jacobs
Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration... -- Leonard Bishop
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires. -- Rem Koolhaas
The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. -- Will Rogers
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place." -- Kazuo Ishiguro
It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game. -- Roger Zelazny
...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures. -- Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov
It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people. -- Werner Herzog
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art. -- Henry David Thoreau
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. -- John B. S. Haldane
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet. -- Jonathan Raban
All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure. -- Richard Francis Burton
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else. -- Peyton C. March
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
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When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it. -- Peter McWilliams
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome. -- Craig Lancaster
I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles. -- Laurel Burch
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage. -- Ludwig von Mises
The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams. -- Alfred Rosenberg
'The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses. -- Bill Maher
Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power. -- Michio Kaku
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth. -- Natalie Goldberg
The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses. -- Bill Maher
American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets. -- Ishmael Reed
Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened. -- Charles Dance
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship. -- Irwin Edman
There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management. -- Bill Keller
Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind. -- A. Curtiss
The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others. -- Ludwig von Mises
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'Ãªtre if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest. -- Bertrand Russell
In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world. -- Lian Hearn
If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a Pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk. -- Demetri Martin
We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live. -- Greg Graffin
We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists. -- Ted Cruz
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution. -- Luther Burbank

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