The Hero With A Thousand Faces Quotes

#1. 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

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

Norman Spinrad

#3. The sports of children satisfy the child.

Oliver Goldsmith

#4. 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

#5. My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

Darrell Issa

#6. When asked why they quit, the lapsed dieters cited complexity as the single most important reason for giving up. Simplicity is even more important when people are tired, stressed, or otherwise cognitively impaired.

Donald Sull

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

Joseph Campbell

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life, is and overpowering thing.

Victor Hugo

#11. I'm used to doing a lot of dolly tracks.

Kurt Voss

#12. No amount of wavy blond hair nor evenings spent with her plump lips applying just the right amount of pressure to his various pleasure points could make up for the rotting carcass of a soul that resided beneath all that beauty.

Nicki Elson

#13. Donald Trump has stunned the political world by building an unlikely coalition that crosses all demographic boundaries of age, sex, race, religion and social classes, and all party lines.

Jerry Falwell Jr.

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

Joseph Campbell

#15. It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.

Birch Bayh

#16. He shook his head when he was in the elevator, going down. Dames were a mystery. He could solve cases but not women.

C.S. Montanye