#mythological

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well. ↗

— Colin Hay

#australia #being #california #dreams #find

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#mythological #paradise #humor

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#confluence #extraordinary #feel #global #i

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#father #forty #fourth #gangs #had

Love is like a unicorn with a rainbow for a horn. What I mean is it’s rare, and you’re lucky if you see it once, or at the most twice, in a given week.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#love #luck #lucky #mythical #mythological

The Cyclopes growled, "I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're... NO... LADY... CYCLOPES! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#mythology

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation ↗

— John Ashbery

#the-mythological-poet #music

Most. Fantastic. Lover. Ever. ↗