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“Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.”

Would Be Three Courses Natural Students Mathematics Cooking Mythology Rhetoric Select Geology Archaeology Natural History Philology Meteorology Prosody

Author:W. H. Auden

“It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.”

“Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.”

Looks Kind Ideas Goes On Creating Photography Mythology Vacation Constructs Souvenirs Great Family Memento

Author:Larry Sultan

“Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.”

Men Wells Compassion Cutting Horror Surprise Mythology Meat Prime Disregard Folklore

Author:Adam Nevill

“If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.”

Ifs World Want Children Mythology Changing The World

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.”

Should Kind Mythology Suits Annoying Riding Leather Conductor Bikers Harley Harley Davidson

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.”

Book Matter Subjects Style Mythology Comic Comic Book Superhero Subject Matter

Author:William Webb

“For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It's one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we've known this since the time of Greek mythology.”

Humans Body Can Do Interesting Known Normal Mythology Cells Greek Organs Stem Greek Mythology Human Body Liver Stem Cell Greek Myth

Author:Sangeeta N. Bhatia

“Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."”

People Important Book Mythology Comic Comic Book

Author:Tom Cavanagh

“In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...”

World Long Real Earth Lost Strong Mythology Contact Greek Giants Real World Isolated Engineers Greek Mythology Greek Myth

Author:Hyman Rickover

“Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!”

Long Today Mythology

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.”

Men Way Ideas Character Facts Christian Animal Principles Movement Inspire Becoming Transformation Mythology Baroque Christian Character

Author:Camille Henrot

“The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.”

Men Firsts Children Different Whole Struggle Mythology Forests Factions

Author:Alex Graves

“We've never pulled from the toy line. We've always pulled from the mythology. What's great is there's so much mythology, so there's always stuff to pull from that. It never lines up perfectly for a movie; it's just like adapting a book or anything else, you know? But you come up with things to create, you come up with different ideas, but fundamentally the ideas always start from the mythology.”

Knows Book Ideas Different Stuff Lines Come Up Mythology Toys Adapting Different Ideas

Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and wars: should there come a point when we think about applying that lesson to ourselves?”

Thinking Should War Military Lessons Unions Spending Mythology Soviet Collapse Presidency Soviet Union Military Spending

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The image of the bank robber I had in mind was more in the European tradition where you'd rob banks and give to the poor, like Robin Hood. It was that mythology. But very early on, my whole preoccupation was with art-studying it, examining every piece of work.”

Giving Mind Poor Tradition Mythology Hood Robin Hood

Author:Tony Shafrazi

“Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.”

People Thinking Long Country Facts Moving Memories Deals Rich Fine Goes On Higher Taxes Percent Pressure Raises Rate Strikes Mythology Long Ago

Author:Bruce Bartlett

“So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting about Rob's pitch and script was that he is a real Holmes-ian expert. He knew all of the mythology. He was very well-versed in the genesis of Holmes and the stories. And the twist with Watson is something we jumped at immediately. It's a very forward-thinking way of doing the show.”

Thinking Way Wells Real Stories Shows Television Exciting Scripts Mythology Experts Twists Detectives Genesis Holmes Watson Forward Thinking

Author:Nina Tassler

“I think the show [Grimm] became a little more procedural following the pilot, and I didn't know that would happen. Recently more of the mythology has crept in, and the characters are starting to bloom.”

Thinking Knows Littles Character Shows Happens Starting Following Mythology Pilots Grimm

Author:David Giuntoli

“The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.”

World Light Form Mystery Mythology Contemporary Twins Enigma

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

“There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level but is not really anything that I care about if people get or not so I write alot of the stuff as metaphors based in Viking mythology and Viking History which is sort of my main interest in life and sort of my main atmosphere in life.”

People Ifs Writing Wells Care Stuff Interest Levels Metaphor Mythology Atmosphere Diverse I Care Vikings Interest In Life

Author:Johan Hegg

“In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.”

Men Shows Roles Figures Devil West Mythology Smoking Hats Gigs Cigar West Africa Haitian Top Hats

Author:Ishmael Reed

“It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the film together, I was only interested in what it was like in movies.”

People Together Film Heaven Laughing Notion Come Up Mythology Innocent Secure Amazed American Life Disinterested

Author:Todd Haynes

“It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.”

World Wells Century Starting Ancient Physics Mythology Phenomenon Quantum Mystical 20th Century Quantum Physics Mystical Experiences

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.”

Needs Struggle Failing Hero Mythology Villain

Author:William Shatner

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

Thinking Persons Whole Mythology Sixty

Author:Bill Ayers

“We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.”

People World Want Believe Kind Country Fantasy Willing Murder Mythology Doomed Exile Blunders

Author:Bill Ayers

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

Care Don't Care Mythology I Don't Care

Author:Robin Williams

“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.”

Sacred Mythology Defined Humankind

Author:Gerald Hausman

“Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.”

Form Creativity Mythology Abundance Massive

Author:Rod Serling

“Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.”

Helping Beautiful Century Mythology Vocabulary Really Beautiful

Author:Karen Russell

“I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell them - or at least own up to them - and then it becomes possible to move something. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings.”

Ifs Made Important Moving Nations Understanding Groups Remains Myth Mythology Invisible Live By Obscure

Author:Marina Warner

“There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.”

Real Band London Mythology Fascination

Author:Craig Finn

“I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.”

Way Looks Stuff Victim Mythology Absurd Cruelty Organized Look Up Organized Religion

Author:Malachy McCourt

“I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.”

Stories Inspiration Dark Deals Hell Lovers Various Mythology Tales Versions Greek Norse

Author:Michael Boatman

“Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.”

Race Events Excuse Mythology Indulge Indulge In Black Racism

Book:James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences

Source: James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences

“I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think his death interpreted his life in a fantastic way, because if you study that life carefully underneath an overlay of theology and mythology, you'll find that the power of that life was that he was constantly giving himself away. He was constantly calling people to be all that they could be.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Way Giving Facts Jesus Study Calling Mythology Theology Fantastic Nazareth

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I came away believing and really deeply troubled by is the extent to which you can have two well-intentioned people talking in a friendly spirit and you get to a point where the two mutual mythologies just don't intersect. So kind of the next piece I'd like to write or think about is how did this left-right divide get so weird and codified.”

People Thinking Writing Believe Wells Kind Two Spirit Next Left Talking Pieces Mythology Friendly Mutual Divides People Talking Really Deep

Author:George Saunders

“That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.”

Important Reality Rocks Myth Mythology Great Things Rock N Roll

Author:Billy Corgan

“The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.”

Believe Bits Generations Rocks Mythology Rock N Roll My Generation Cannons General Public

Author:Billy Corgan

“Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.”

States Stories Culture Belief Consciousness Possibility Mythology Collectives Replaced States Of Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.”

Kind Courses Fantasy Novel Standards Wine West Mythology Remarkable Palms Standard English

Author:William Golding

“If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.”

Ifs Want School Rocks Periods Mythology Transition Rock N Roll Daddy

Author:Van Morrison

“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.”

Knows Character Stories Historical Work Out Mythology Inevitability

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. - all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.”

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Author:Vera Nazarian

“When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history." This of course I take as the highest compliment, since it was indeed my sincere intent.”

“With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.”

Term Particular Series Mythology Wheels Cursed Elasticity

Author:Scott Snyder

“KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that I think people will be really excited to see.”

People Thinking Way Character Bigs Return Hero Excited Mythology Chasing

Author:Scott Snyder

“What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the greatest threat facing America today is that they are also promoters of the mythology that America was founded and should be governed as a Christian nation - or, when they're feeling magnanimously ecumenical, a "Judeo-Christian" nation.”

Should Feelings Today Christian America Nations Groups Threat Conservative Mythology Remarkable Activist Conspiracy Hysterical Theorists America Today Promoters Theocracy Christian Nation

Author:Sarah Posner

“[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.”

Believe Memories Fit My Favorite British Mythology Obsessed Playwright Our Memories Pinter

Author:Baron Vaughn

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