legendary beings Quotes

If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.

Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

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

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina.

Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too.​

Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

Bigfoot may well be an extraterrestrial, because... remember Chewbacca?

Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

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

Bigfoot loves celebrities. You just have to bring celebrities that Bigfoot loves. It would probably be just gorgeous women.

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

It may be that there is such a thing as racial memory, and it is supported by the undeniable observation that the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.