#myth

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message? ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#metaphors #mythology #religion #theism #art

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#dead #dead end #end #intrigued #longer

We hold this myth to be potential Not self-evident but equational Another Dimension Of another kind of Living Life ↗

— Sun Ra

#mythology #life

From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#hydra #mythology #mythology

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. ↗

— Kent McCord

#business #fade #friendships #hollywood #insist

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word... ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greek-mythology #mythology

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#mythology #science-vs-religion #war #age

When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#beauty

Greg Broadmore's fertile and twisted imagination has conjoined multiple genres, memories, and a sharp sense of pulp, colonialist nostalgia/parody in this lavish, fully realized, imaginative tour-de-force. It's Jules Verne meets Fritz Lang meets Tintin. It's beyond Steampunk. It's clearly an insatiable passion for the talismans of a bygone civilization and it's slavish addiction to the early industrial age in all it's filigreed, ignorant glory. Greg has raised the bar. ↗

— Adam Savage

#dr-grordbort #dr-grordbort-s #myth-busters #triumph #weta

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever. ↗

— Carre Otis

#forever #i #least #myth #paid