Set Shot Vs Jump 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

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches. — Dita Von Teese

What does a fool who doesn't see the worth of others see in himself? — C.M. Stunich

Toklo raked his companions with a hard glance. "Don't risk your own safety."
"I bet you'll risk yours," Lusa said, aware once again of how deeply she trusted this bear.
"That's what I'm here for," Toklo retorted. — Erin Hunter

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy! — Edwin Drake

He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"
Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. — Lewis Thomas

Dear friends & fellow characters, you all know the importance we attach to the power of collective prayer in this our desperate struggle for survival. Some of us have more existence than others, at various times according to fashion. But even this is becoming extremely shadowy & precarious, for we are not read, & when read , we are read badly, we are not lived as we used to be, we are not identified with & fantasized, we are rapidly forgotten. Those of us who have the good fortune to be read by teachers, scholars, & students are not read as we used to be read, but analyzed as schemata, structures, functions within structures, logical & mathematical formulae, aporia, psychic movements, social significances & so forth. — Christine Brooke-Rose

Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die. — Tahar Djaout

In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this — Marcus Aurelius