Quotes of Mythical - somelinesforyou

“ Everything that can be invented has been invented. ”

- Charles H. Duell

“ Cincinnati is going to be great, because they have four seniors. I think people are maybe underrating Cincinnati because they lost a legendary coach. But Andy Kennedy is a terrific coach and they have four seniors and it would not surprise me to see them win this conference. ”

- Rick Pitino

“ Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. ”

- James Joyce

“ There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ”

- Orlando Bloom

“ There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. ”

- Charles M. Schulz

“ Instead, I found someone with an almost mythic character and I knew I had found the Chairman. ”

- Ken Watanabe

“ I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal. ”

- Christopher Plummer

“ With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Accurst be he that first invented war. ”

- Christopher Marlowe

“ America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ”

- David Riesman

“ I am the primitive of the method I have invented. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ”

- Orlando Bloom

“ Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. ”

- Murray Edelman

“ Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present? ”

- Thomas Mann

“ Truth exists; only lies are invented. ”

- Georges Braque

“ I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ”

- Angela Carter

“ I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me it is like a mythical place. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it. ”

- Victoria Billings

“ There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else. ”

- General Peyton C. March

“ There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. ”

- Peyton Conway March

“ The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. ”

- Will Rodgers

“ I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. ”

- J. B. S. Haldane

“ We underestimated what kind of acting chops this guy had, and we now see what he's able to do when he's given the right part. He's taken his considerable acting experience, melded that with his own kind of personality, melded that with the almost mythic history he brings to the part. ”

- Robert Thompson

“ Everything that can be invented has been invented. ”

- Charles H. Duell

“ Cincinnati is going to be great, because they have four seniors. I think people are maybe underrating Cincinnati because they lost a legendary coach. But Andy Kennedy is a terrific coach and they have four seniors and it would not surprise me to see them win this conference. ”

- Rick Pitino

“ Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. ”

- James Joyce

“ There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ”

- Orlando Bloom

“ There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. ”

- Charles M. Schulz
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