Top 208 Mythical Quotes & Sayings

What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones)

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover

I love anything that's mythical, and fantasy is one of my favourite genres.

Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

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.

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.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

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.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

Minneapolis has always been a mythical place for me because my mom is a massive Prince fan.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

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.

Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there.

Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It's a mythical flying horse.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

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.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

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.

People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

...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.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3". What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

The reason I know I'm different to other people is I'm awake in the night, like all mythical creatures.

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.

There's a mythical status to the Tony Awards. When you're growing up as an actor, you hear about Broadway and the Tonys, but it's not something you ever expect to experience.

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

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.

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

Spock is a huge mythical character that even people who aren't 'Star Trek' fans like.

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

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.

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.

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.