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The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.
Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.
If you look back at Greek mythology and even back before World War 1, every time a team would go out to battle, they'd eat first.
It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.
If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.
The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.
It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there's widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there's not.
Mythology contains a rich history of legendary weapons, most famously 'Excalibur,' weapons that could only be used by the pure of heart.
Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of 'The Hunger Games.'
The 'Classics Illustrated' series was an excellent primer in literature, and I also really enjoyed Zachary Hamby's mythology books for teens.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Vernon Fenwick. He's a cameraman at Channel 6 - he's April O'Neil's cameraman - and Vernon is a character who is from the 'Turtle' mythology.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games.
I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
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.
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films and mythology and stories.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
Maha Kumbh' blends elements from Hindu mythology with the international espionage thriller. Nothing like it has ever been attempted on Indian television.
Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what's going on in the real world than people want to discuss.
I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. That's what the Justice League is for, you know what I mean?
This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths.
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.
Mythology has largely been written by men and focusses on men - on wars and men, who went to war. But, there are women who influence the decisions of men.
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
Mythology is part of our heritage, part of our identity at times because anywhere in India you will find the name of Rama or Krishna in one or the other form.