#mythology

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. ↗

— Eric Bana

#greek mythology #had #i #i wish #mythology

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs. ↗

— Amber Benson

#geek #i #jacobs #know #marc

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who? ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#forgetting #memory #mythology #death

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#concept #delinquent #god #mythology #senile

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#based #culture #even #every #geographical

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#any #basically #because #characters #gods

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#cannot #elegant #knowledge #language #literature

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. ↗

— Barbara Steele

#grow #grow up #immersed #italian #light

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#died #families #father #his #how