Archetypal Quotes
On timeless forms, universal stories, and recurring patterns.
These quotes use 'archetypal' to describe universal stories and patterns, from star-crossed lovers as an archetypal romance to the human brain described as an archetypal complex system. Readers drawn to big-picture thinking may also enjoy our Attention quotes.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
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I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.
Absolutely Not Quotes
In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content.
Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
Ale Quotes
Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.
My mum is your archetypal Asian mum, always feeding people. If there was no food in the cupboard, she'd still manage to rustle up a feast - Bangladeshi food such as pilau rice, curry and korma.
Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I...
Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.
Always Quotes
Donald Trump is an archetypal grifter. Using the presidency to promote your golf courses, hotels, and real estate business is grifting. So is getting people to pay a premium for buildings with your name in big, gold letters. Licensing your...
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.
What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?
Attention Quotes
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
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Other entries take a more philosophical turn, weighing a contemplated archetypal world of ideas against material reality, and a lighter one, poking fun at avoiding the 'archetypal sponging brother-in-law' role by choosing teaching over acting.
