Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

The first thing, the first element of a story that people hear, they believe it. Whether it's right or wrong.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television.

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!

I don't believe in faeries!

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.

Into every generation comes a vampire.

One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.

the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

The vampire story is something that has existed since 'Nosferatu,' and I don't think it's gonna go away.

I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors.

There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.

In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.