Legend And Key Quotes & Sayings

[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a story of a certain kind. The myths of a culture are those stories it takes seriously - the ones that are thought to be a key to its identity. — Margaret Atwood

LOVE Is The Key Element To The Existence Of Humanity!
With It ... Mankind Will Exist For Eternity.
Without It ... Mankind Will Cease To Exist! — Timothy Pina

Poetry is a sort of homecoming. — Paul Celan

You are missing a key element to the story. Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art. — Amy Harmon

Sometimes feeling nothing hurts the most.
— Karen Peterson

The camel has a big dumb ugly hump. But in the desert, where prettier, more streamlined beasts die quickly of thirst, the camel survives quite nicely. As legend has it, the camel carries its own water, stores it in its stupid hump. If individuals, like camels, perfect their inner resources, if we have the power within us, then we can cross any wasteland in relative comfort and survive in arid surroundings without relying on the external. Often, moreover, it is our "hump" - that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable - that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. — Tom Robbins

Life may have knocked you down on the outside but the key to a great life is to learn how to get back up on the inside. Always let your spirit soar. — Timothy Pina

Eric Holder, our attorney general, says the Mr. Snowden will be brought to justice. Just as soon as we can find someone who can track his calls and read his emails. — Bill Maher

There might be some weirdness mixed in with being admired like that, but I think there's more good. — Cassandra Clare

It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of the truth, sounding so right and plausible that
if he is any kind of liar at all
he begins, himself, to believe it. It was the pleasure that a maker of golems takes as the force of his words, the rhythm and accuracy of his alphabetical spells, blow life into the cold clay nostrils, and the great stony hand unclenches and reaches for his own. — Michael Chabon

I should like one day, as some anonymous pedestrian revisiting the scenes of these memories, to follow on the heels of an attentive reader - here are some - and to relish his delight when, with this book in his pocket, he finds himself in the presence of one of the characters described, mentioned or referred to earlier on, who do exist, large as life, and wittingly or not perpetuate their legend. I'd like people to investigate, to verify. You need to be an extremely well-informed reader to identify all the 'keys' scattered throughout these pages. Many readers may find among them the key to their own front door.

In any case, what you need to know is this: in certain areas of Paris, the supernatural is part of everyday life. Local people accept this and have some involvement with it. — Jacques Yonnet

The key principle I have always try to live by is peace. So If it doesn't bring you joy & happiness...it will never bring you peace. Just walk away! — Timothy Pina

Erick: "I think I may grow to hate you before this is over."
Jaron/Sage: "But you don't already and that's got to be some sort of record. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were. — Justina Chen

Worry is a part of life. These burdensome thoughts plaque us all. The key is not to let these thoughts ruin your day & your life. — Timothy Pina

That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in. — Toby Barlow

Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing. — Seth Godin

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same. — Janice Dickinson

A key principle of success is to always refuse to let any setback in your life ... defeat you. Keep moving forward! — Timothy Pina

People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day. — John Legend

Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house.

Would you Helen? Would you really? — Kristin Hannah