Top 35 Archetypal Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Archetypal Quotes from famous people such as Harrison Birtwistle, Sandra Tsing Loh, Chuck Palahniuk, Adam Hamilton, P. J. O’Rourke, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on

One thing I’ve tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
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.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
Chuck Palahniuk
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah’s story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
Adam Hamilton
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
P. J. O’Rourke
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.
Konnie Huq
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.
Robert Eggers
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.
Kelly Asbury
My dad, was the archetypal charming man. If I’ve inherited even a small bit of what he had that would be enough for me.
Phillip Schofield
When I started in the business there were no women in executive positions, no women producers or directors and certainly no camerawomen and we were destined to do very archetypal roles, very cliched things, so I was a dizzy blonde for years.
Sheila Hancock
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.
John C. McGinley
People tend to think of fairy tales as ‘archetypal.’ They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
Kate Bernheimer
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.
Frank Grillo
Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him on radio you would think he was white.
David Starkey
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 name is what every grifter dreams about.
Jacob Weisberg
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.
Scott Adkins
I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I’m the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
Robert Smith
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.
Sheryl Crow
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.
Santiago Calatrava
I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
Juliana Hatfield
You go back to look over the body of my work, and there are no archetypal villains in my books.
Christopher Priest
All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that’s what the archetypal American Western was.
W. Earl Brown
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.
Patricia Clarkson
Robin Hood is often seen as the hands-on-hips, archetypal, tally-ho hero. But, realistically, the one calling the shots wouldn’t be at the front shouting about it. He’d be the one you don’t expect.
Jonas Armstrong
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
Patrick Stewart
My dad’s a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn’t realise that.
Jo Brand
I don’t have a general archetypal platonic shadow, ‘acting’ concept about it.
Tom Sturridge
Blonde symbolises sexuality and power – it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.
Marina and the Diamonds
Prior to an individual’s encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.
Glenn Murray
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Dennis Gabor
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodie

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.
Nicolas Malebranche
Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis.
Roger Ebert
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?
Frank Grillo
‘What’s It Gonna Be?’ is about having a massive crush on someone, so it made sense to go back where – to school, where it all began. But it was important for us to explore those archetypal characters – The Jock, The Nerd, The Dork, The Popular Kid – and then flip expectations.
Shura