Penultimate Truth Quotes

#1. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth - penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images,

Joseph Campbell

#2. If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it's true. Myth is the penultimate truth.

Joseph Campbell

#3. When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

Asa Butterfield

#4. Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.

Debasish Mridha

#5. When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate

John Berger

#6. I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

Ali Liebegott

#7. The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

Vint Cerf

#8. Somebody always leaves a banana-skin on the scene of tragedy.

Graham Greene

#9. Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Paul Cezanne

#10. I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

Ruth J. Simmons

#11. We can live without sex, but we cant live without love.

Shane Claiborne

#12. Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

Sarah Addison Allen

#13. The schizophrenic in the sleeping bag with a live chicken and a can of tomato soup spilling onto the sidewalk had no right to steal my street performance.

Jarod Kintz