Joseph Campbell Quotes

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly.

Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

Once Bob commits to something, it's almost like a child. He doesn't want anybody else to take care of it, even if it might be to his detriment.

Hello, my name is Samin, and I'm an artisanal-bread hoarder.

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.

Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

We really have dinosaurs today, without any question. You just need the right weather conditions, as I see it, to get huge creatures. And in the ocean, of course, we have huge creatures.... this is where the plesiosauruses seem to be today, and perhaps also this fire breathing dragon is still down there - very rare, but occasionally there.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

My parents were hoarders before hoarding was cool

Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.