Archetype Quotes

Archetype Quote of the day

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions.

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.

I feel all of the archetypes in Silicon Valley probably exist in some other form in other subcultures.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype.

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last shot, and then it ended.

People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was cool. It wasn't in every one of those comedies.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.

The word is my weapon. FIRE!

Unfortunately the ‘warrior’ archetype accidentally dropped the soap in the shower and he has been getting boned senseless by the ‘soldier/lobbyist archetype’ ever since.