Quotes of: Folklore Keyword

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Journey Through Europe

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

Terri Windling

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

Alan Dundes

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

Andy Hertzfeld

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore

The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

Alan Dundes

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a la...

Max von Sydow

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

Juliet Marillier

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

Ted Naifeh

Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.

E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!

E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?

Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to ...

Alan Dundes

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Cassandra Clare

Indiana: This site also demonstrates one of the great dangers of archaeology; not to life and limb, although that does sometimes take place. I'm talking about folklore.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

Tim Schafer

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.

Alan Dundes

Lost… What if all of the folklore elements your grandfather spoke of—actually were? What if there was only a paper thin separation of less than one degree? Who would save you? How would you survive?

Troy T. Tabor