Quotes About Mythical Beasts

#1. Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

William Poundstone

#2. I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.
She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

Woody Allen

#3. Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?"
"Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust.

Meg Wolitzer

#4. Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.

Meghan Daum

#5. The unicorn is a mythical beast,

James Thurber

#6. Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Josh Billings

#7. There's such a fragile, thin veneer of illusion between the words "together" and "alone".

Bradley Somer

#8. It is not really work if you are having fun.

Pierre Omidyar

#9. Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#10. A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

Al Yankovic

#11. I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one till I die. What else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

Helen Thomas

#12. It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge.

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#13. Why do fathers look ungainly in their daughter's bedrooms? Like mythical beasts wandered in from the forest of another world?

Mira Jacob

#14. New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Lewis Mumford

#15. Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Michio Kaku

#16. There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Hey, I like unicorns. Unicorns are just weaponized ponies.

Damon Suede