Hero With A Thousand Faces Quotes

#1. I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

Norman Spinrad

#2. In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Richard Price

#3. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

Lewis H. Lapham

#4. The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Joseph Campbell

#5. A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

Robert Breault

#6. It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

Emmy Rossum

#7. According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.

Wayne Mack

#8. I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.

Jake Roberts

#9. I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.

Viola Davis

#10. I can remember walking on the moon.

Alan Bean

#11. I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Samuel Johnson

#12. All of us are crazy in one or another way.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

#13. Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

Joseph Campbell

#14. In the evolution of a town, neighborhood, or community, there comes a point when the decisions of the past, the conditions of the present, and the prospects for the future collide.

Jeff Smith

#15. I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

Evan Williams

#16. Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

Daniel Clowes

#17. It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

Johnny Cash

#18. We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Jean Rostand

#19. The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

Joseph Campbell

#20. If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Mark Zuckerberg