Ancient Legends Quotes

#1. One should not inquire too closely where ancient legends about the gods are concerned; many things which reason rejects acquire some color of probability once you bring a god into the story

Arrian

#2. I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

Rhys Ifans

#3. Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

Umberto Eco

#4. Azdaha were no joke ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention.

Ilona Andrews

#5. Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely.

Chris Bohjalian

#6. Hi there, I'm - " "An idiot," Kieran said, rolling his eyes. Thrain grinned and shook Clare's hand. "Well, hello, Miss Idiot.

Jayde Scott

#7. I thought she wanted out. We should've brought cuffs and a gag." Clare frowned. "What's wrong with you, Blake? This is a rescue mission, not a kidnapping.

Jayde Scott

#8. Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Louise Bourgeois

#9. It was nice to see someone who appreciated her for her character, no matter how disgusted Christian was by the idea of ANYONE dating his aunt. And I actually kind of liked seeing Christian so obviously tormented. It was good for him.

Richelle Mead

#10. I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.

Jayde Scott

#11. They toiled all night and caught NOTHING.
We need SOMETHING to show for our labor or endeavors.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#12. Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily.
Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on Earth

Daniel Peter Buckley

#13. Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there's really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn't come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

Maxine Greene

#14. Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

Charlie Campbell

#15. Again, so had the rest of the

Harlan Coben

#16. You're not going anywhere. If I need to put you in chains to keep you by my side, then so be it.

Jayde Scott

#17. I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#18. You haven't told her?" Cass shouted. "You're the worst boyfriend ever!

Jayde Scott

#19. Legends and folklores are the memories of ancient civilizations.

Ninotaziz

#20. Well, I'm not only a direct descendent of the Anunnaki, but I'm one of the original hybrids. My royal blood is almost pure as I was begotten from the strongest and most ancient of our kind.

J.M. Northup

#21. A spell perhaps? The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

Liz DeJesus

#22. Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

James Christensen

#23. I loved Aphrodite from the first and steeped myself in her legends. My mother told me that in ancient times her rituals were bloody and cruel, but I only half believed it.

Erica Jong

#24. The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting, undisturbed by knowing, tranquil in the forgetfulness of yesterday's silvery silence

Sean Terrence Best

#25. I froze all night. My back's killing me. I want home, and I'm scared to death. But I guess the view makes it all worth it."
"You're funny," Angel said

Jayde Scott

#26. I laughed. So, let me get this straight. You slayed the dragon, jumped over the moat, climbed the tower of the evil King's castle, saved the princes, and rode off with her into sunset aka Shadow land. Why, you're my knight in shining armour.

Jayde Scott

#27. Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.

Patti Smith

#28. Can't you see, Amber? Losing you would be like a stake to my heart.

Jayde Scott

#29. What do you see in him anyway?" "He doesn't leave the toilet seat up." I smiled bitterly

Jayde Scott

#30. Now any King who wants to call himself my equal wherever I went let him go."
Sargon the Great / Enheduanna from
Heaven Earth and Time by D P BUCKLEY

Daniel Peter Buckley

#31. The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.

David Wessel

#32. The spirituality of the sun was, for thousands of years, the dominant religion of the ancient world. If you trace it far back enough, its origin stretches well beyond recorded history into the most ancient sacred texts, and from there, into the most ancient of myths and legends.

Belsebuub

#33. If Morris and his contemporaries were possessed by the medieval Christian imagination and the ancient sagas, the moderns looked further back to the ancient world, and rewrote the Greek myths and legends to suit their own ideas about society and history.

A.S. Byatt

#34. Gen X wanted to succeed at this so she could tell people she did it, and little Gen Z wanted me to hand over that goddamn formula, and she was willing to scream until she got it.

Tina Fey

#35. She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#36. Wait." Amber jumped up wide-eyed. "Is she a - "
"A ghost " I smirked. "Amber you're a necromancer in a show about raising the dead. What did you expect Eerie sounds produced by a computer and a few Hollywood actors in bad makeup Please don't tell me you've never seen a real ghost.

Jayde Scott

#37. Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.

Barbara Mikulski

#38. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations ... entangling alliances with none

Thomas Jefferson

#39. A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

Karl Urban

#40. We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.

Charles Dickens

#41. The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

Anatoly Karpov

#42. We're close. I can smell their faint scent," Blake whispered.
Kieran snorted. "That makes one of us. All I smell is dog shit.

Jayde Scott