Mythical Quotations

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.

V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.

I loved all fantasy, and I always thought that the ideal job as a performer and an entertainer would be to take on a mythical character, you know? Make someone up. Give them a voice, a mannerism, whatever. I always thought that that was the coolest way to do.

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3". What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.

There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Second place wouldn't be that important, except in this case second place is held by Babe Ruth, who is the central figure in baseball history. He is more like Paul Bunyan. He's a mythical figure. Passing Babe Ruth is a big deal, but not because he's in second place.

She sounds extremely creative, in that she turned historical figures into mythical figures. Obviously, she's absorbing images and metaphors, and shows she's thinking. What more do we want a seven-year-old to do?

Mythical money does not buy groceries, gas or pay medical bills.

The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world - what perfect principles must have been used.

We hear it all the time, so you think about it because everybody talks about it around here. We spend all our time with each other talking about, 'Forget about it.' It's such a mythical thing and everybody talks about it.

There are those on the coasts that might snicker in their sleeves, but the town represents what many conservative people in the Midwest see as America, the America they want, the America they hold in their heads from yesterday. Maybe it is part mythical -- but it's the America they want to cling to.

I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

There are cultural obstacles in addressing this. When you really pry under the lid, it is really ugly. We love our sports, and we want them to be this mythical fantasyland. But in our heart of hearts, we know that it isn't, and that's the cultural conundrum.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.

This had mythical proportions. A beautiful blond guy, his wife and this mysterious woman who gets under the husband's skin. It's basic storytelling.

The administration has embarked on a journey to Shangri-La, a mythical place where spending goes up ... and where budgets magically balance with a wave of the hand.

That 'I cannot tell a lie' has almost become a proverb. It's something that turns the patriarch of our country into a mythical figure.

I want to be in 'The Hobbit.' I love fantasy and mythical adventure films. I believe in fairies and angels. I believe in nature's spirit, that there are other realms, other planets, life forms.

It seems almost mythical to me. Just using the wind, in this partnership with nature, it was able to strike a blow at the creation of nuclear weapons.

If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you're a very appealing program. It's a burden that every single coach in the United States would like to wear, whether they admit it or not.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

It's almost impossible to discuss it rationally. It doesn't have anything to do with logic or reason, it's so steeped in myth. And this mythical wolf really doesn't exist.

There was still quite a bit of political eggshell-walking, but this marks the first time that Bush has identified and described the real goals of radical Islam - to re-establish the mythical caliphate and the global dominance of Islam,

We talked to the women about what it was like, the first time they went into the mine, because all of them have grown up with those buildings on the landscape and those smokestacks and the men in their families going off to the mine, and it was always a mythical place,

The unicorn is a mythical beast,

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella