Quotes about Myth

Myth is, after all, the neverending story. Votes: 4

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery. Votes: 4

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. Votes: 4

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Votes: 4

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. Votes: 4

Myth is someone else's religion. Votes: 3

Myth is the nothing that is all. Votes: 3

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip. Votes: 3

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other. Votes: 3

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful. Votes: 3

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us. Votes: 3

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. Votes: 3

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. Votes: 3

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter. Votes: 3

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. Votes: 3

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. Votes: 3

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy. Votes: 3

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood. Votes: 3

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.... Votes: 3

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. Votes: 3

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. Votes: 3

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. Votes: 3

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. Votes: 3

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. Votes: 3

Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world? Votes: 3

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Votes: 3

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. Votes: 3

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately. Votes: 3

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world. Votes: 3

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth. Votes: 3

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought. Votes: 3

I drag my myth around with me. Votes: 2

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. Votes: 2

Myth is what we call other people's religion. Votes: 2

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. Votes: 2

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. Votes: 2

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. Votes: 2

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. Votes: 2

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. Votes: 2

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. Votes: 2

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Votes: 2

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then. Votes: 2

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. Votes: 2

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Votes: 2

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you. Votes: 2

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. Votes: 2

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. Votes: 2

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. Votes: 2

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. Votes: 2

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. Votes: 2

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing. Votes: 2

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. Votes: 2

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music. Votes: 2

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. Votes: 2

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are. Votes: 2

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. Votes: 2

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. Votes: 2

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Votes: 2

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence. Votes: 2

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. Votes: 2

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't. Votes: 2

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. Votes: 2

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. Votes: 2

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. Votes: 2

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group. Votes: 2

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. Votes: 2

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Votes: 2

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. Votes: 2

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity. Votes: 2

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. Votes: 2

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. Votes: 2

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox. Votes: 2

While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. Votes: 2

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. Votes: 2

We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer. Votes: 2

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Votes: 2

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. Votes: 2

Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. Votes: 2

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. Votes: 2

Jackie Chan is a myth. Votes: 0

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, Votes: 0

In the beginning was the myth. Votes: 0

The natural-born investor is a myth. Votes: 0

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth. Votes: 0

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. Votes: 0

When gossip grows old it becomes myth. Votes: 0

Conscience is better served by a myth. Votes: 0

The moment there is imagination there is myth Votes: 0

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised. Votes: 0

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science. Votes: 0

Music is our myth of the inner life ... Votes: 0

All things fade and quickly turn to myth. Votes: 0

American public policy is run on a myth. Votes: 0

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth. Votes: 0

I think a myth is created from truth. Votes: 0

The myth of the first world is that Votes: 0

Now is the time to become a myth. Votes: 0

The first myth of management is that it exists. Votes: 0

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth. Votes: 0

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth Votes: 0

When myth meets myth, the collision is very real. Votes: 0

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream. Votes: 0

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents Votes: 0

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. Votes: 0

It has served us well, this myth of Christ. Votes: 0

There is at least one truth in every myth. Votes: 0

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth. Votes: 0

History is a myth that men agree to believe. Votes: 0

Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness. Votes: 0

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. Votes: 0

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth. Votes: 0

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced. Votes: 0

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. Votes: 0

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born... Votes: 0

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope. Votes: 0

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism. Votes: 0

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Votes: 0

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me. Votes: 0

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Votes: 0

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true. Votes: 0

The one man team is a complete and total myth. Votes: 0

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused. Votes: 0

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth. Votes: 0

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth Votes: 0

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all. Votes: 0

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth. Votes: 0

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself. Votes: 0

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have. Votes: 0

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth Votes: 0

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. Votes: 0

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth. Votes: 0

Your endurance is strongly influenced byyour fundamental myth about the fighting. Votes: 0

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth. Votes: 0

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger Votes: 0

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. Votes: 0

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth. Votes: 0

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. Votes: 0

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth. Votes: 0

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening. Votes: 0

We must first get over the myth that older workers can't innovate. Votes: 0

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. Votes: 0

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics... Votes: 0

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality. Votes: 0

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously. Votes: 0

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. Votes: 0

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth. Votes: 0

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth. Votes: 0

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. Votes: 0

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. Votes: 0

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth. Votes: 0

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil. Votes: 0

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. Votes: 0

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in. Votes: 0

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living? Votes: 0

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. Votes: 0

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night. Votes: 0

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth. Votes: 0

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it. Votes: 0

The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth. Votes: 0

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning Votes: 0

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns. Votes: 0

You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you... Votes: 0

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon? Votes: 0

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things. Votes: 0

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. Votes: 0

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. Votes: 0

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one Votes: 0

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. Votes: 0

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced. Votes: 0

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. Votes: 0

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. Votes: 0

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. Votes: 0

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Votes: 0

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. Votes: 0

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Votes: 0

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns. Votes: 0

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. Votes: 0

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are. Votes: 0

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. Votes: 0

You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans? Votes: 0

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier. Votes: 0

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. Votes: 0

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth. Votes: 0

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read. Votes: 0

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth. Votes: 0

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. Votes: 0

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. Votes: 0

The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another Votes: 0

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time. Votes: 0

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. Votes: 0

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. Votes: 0

The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back. Votes: 0

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. Votes: 0

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world. Votes: 0

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves. Votes: 0

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s. Votes: 0

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight. Votes: 0

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed. Votes: 0

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. Votes: 0

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Votes: 0

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard. Votes: 0

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all. Votes: 0

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history. Votes: 0

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. Votes: 0

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them. Votes: 0

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. Votes: 0

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. Votes: 0

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can. Votes: 0

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone. Votes: 0

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. Votes: 0

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Votes: 0

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. Votes: 0

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring. Votes: 0

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. Votes: 0

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. Votes: 0

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. Votes: 0

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. Votes: 0

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky Votes: 0

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. Votes: 0

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that. Votes: 0

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth. Votes: 0

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. Votes: 0

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone. Votes: 0

Commentating, illustrating, description-giving Adjective expert. Analyzing, surmising, Musical, myth-seeking people of the universe... This is yours! Votes: 0

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death. Votes: 0

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result. Votes: 0

Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was. Votes: 0

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery. Votes: 0

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. Votes: 0

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. Votes: 0

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies. Votes: 0

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection. Votes: 0

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. Votes: 0

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. Votes: 0

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. Votes: 0

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India. Votes: 0

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. Votes: 0

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. Votes: 0

Forget about tomorrow; it's a myth. You only have today to do what you want to do Votes: 0

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick Votes: 0

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. Votes: 0

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them. Votes: 0

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. Votes: 0

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. Votes: 0

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway. Votes: 0

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. Votes: 0

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. Votes: 0

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. Votes: 0

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth. Votes: 0

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work. Votes: 0

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. Votes: 0

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream. Votes: 0

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe. Votes: 0

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. Votes: 0

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia. Votes: 0

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children. Votes: 0

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. Votes: 0

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them. Votes: 0

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. Votes: 0

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history. Votes: 0

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. Votes: 0

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. Votes: 0

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. Votes: 0

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it. Votes: 0

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth. Votes: 0

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond. Votes: 0

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. Votes: 0

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether... Votes: 0

Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. Votes: 0

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth. Votes: 0

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth. Votes: 0

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. Votes: 0

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. Votes: 0

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth Votes: 0

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. Votes: 0

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet. Votes: 0

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. Votes: 0

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. Votes: 0

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors." Votes: 0

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. Votes: 0

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact Votes: 0

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. Votes: 0

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops. Votes: 0

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence. Votes: 0

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself. Votes: 0

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? Votes: 0

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. Votes: 0

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true. Votes: 0

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. Votes: 0

It is wrong to suppose that if you can't measure it, you can't manage it – a costly myth Votes: 0

I don't like the idea of drama schools. They only perpetuate the myth that everyone can do what I do Votes: 0

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit. Votes: 0

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage. Votes: 0

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up. Votes: 0

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. Votes: 0

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. Votes: 0

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. Votes: 0

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. Votes: 0

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. Votes: 0

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. Votes: 0

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. Votes: 0

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. Votes: 0

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth. Votes: 0

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by. Votes: 0

There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own. Votes: 0

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie. Votes: 0

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. Votes: 0

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes. Votes: 0

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. Votes: 0

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally. Votes: 0

because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. Votes: 0

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth. Votes: 0

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. Votes: 0

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents. Votes: 0

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. Votes: 0

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism. Votes: 0

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. Votes: 0

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. Votes: 0

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents. Votes: 0

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth Votes: 0

You are my reality, fantasy, daydream, fairytale, music, more than the princess in Cinderella; you are much more than a traditional myth. Votes: 0

I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote. Votes: 0

I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote. Votes: 0

... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Votes: 0

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. Votes: 0

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. Votes: 0

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. Votes: 0

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things. Votes: 0

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. Votes: 0

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. Votes: 0

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there's usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul. Votes: 0

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws. Votes: 0

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked. Votes: 0

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. Votes: 0

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all. Votes: 0

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess. Votes: 0

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however. Votes: 0

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't. Votes: 0

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship. Votes: 0

Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support. Votes: 0

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. Votes: 0

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible. Votes: 0

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. Votes: 0

When you're living in the moment, you're living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that's your reality. Everything else is a myth. Votes: 0

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype. Votes: 0

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman. Votes: 0

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions. Votes: 0

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature. Votes: 0

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. Votes: 0

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities. Votes: 0

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form. Votes: 0

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives. Votes: 0

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now. Votes: 0

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick. Votes: 0

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever. Votes: 0

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power. Votes: 0

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality. Votes: 0

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves. Votes: 0

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Votes: 0

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise. Votes: 0

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. Votes: 0

Let's dispel a little myth. Working hard is NOT the key to success. It may be an ingredient, but it isn't the main one. Votes: 0

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. Votes: 0

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. Votes: 0

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic. Votes: 0

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth Votes: 0

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. Votes: 0

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West. Votes: 0

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. Votes: 0

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth. Votes: 0

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone? Votes: 0

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men. Votes: 0

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots. Votes: 0

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. Votes: 0

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning. Votes: 0

Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. Votes: 0

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking. Votes: 0

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health. Votes: 0

In India we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths. Votes: 0

In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths. Votes: 0

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. Votes: 0

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God. Votes: 0

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. Votes: 0

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft. Votes: 0

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. Votes: 0

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual. Votes: 0

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so. Votes: 0

In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised. Votes: 0

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry. Votes: 0

Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends. Votes: 0

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil. Votes: 0

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own. Votes: 0

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular! Votes: 0

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. Votes: 0

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day. Votes: 0

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth. Votes: 0

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth. Votes: 0

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy. Votes: 0

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition. Votes: 0

For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character. Votes: 0

It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for. Votes: 0

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood. Votes: 0

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems. Votes: 0

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost. Votes: 0

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. Votes: 0

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling. Votes: 0

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. Votes: 0

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth Votes: 0

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement. Votes: 0

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom. Votes: 0

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth. Votes: 0

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?] Votes: 0

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. Votes: 0

Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it. Votes: 0

Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted. Votes: 0

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. Votes: 0

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth. Votes: 0

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history. Votes: 0

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time. Votes: 0

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts. Votes: 0

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it. Votes: 0

I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways. Votes: 0

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth. Votes: 0

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae. Votes: 0

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved. Votes: 0

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth. Votes: 0

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion. Votes: 0

...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.... Votes: 0

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. Votes: 0

The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all. Votes: 0

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience. Votes: 0

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. Votes: 0

The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion. Votes: 0

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going. Votes: 0

Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed by the many ways people move forward. Votes: 0

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. Votes: 0

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it. Votes: 0

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano. Votes: 0

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people. Votes: 0

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. Votes: 0

Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature. Votes: 0

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked! Votes: 0

I learned that myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting. Votes: 0

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth. Votes: 0

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. Votes: 0

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one. Votes: 0

It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone. Votes: 0

In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth. Votes: 0

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. Votes: 0

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. Votes: 0

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff. Votes: 0

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine. Votes: 0

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter. Votes: 0

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it. Votes: 0

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema. Votes: 0

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. Votes: 0

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules! Votes: 0

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth. Votes: 0

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. Votes: 0

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. Votes: 0

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority. Votes: 0

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever. Votes: 0

The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless. Votes: 0

The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being Votes: 0

Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth. Votes: 0

The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. Votes: 0

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels. Votes: 0

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool. Votes: 0

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery. Votes: 0

I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating. Votes: 0

Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow Votes: 0

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe. Votes: 0

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others. Votes: 0

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to Icarus of the Greek myth. Votes: 0

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know. Votes: 0

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. Votes: 0

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people. Votes: 0

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful. Votes: 0

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is. Votes: 0

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be. Votes: 0

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years. Votes: 0

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' Votes: 0

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano. Votes: 0

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. Votes: 0

The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach. Votes: 0

The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West. Votes: 0

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies. Votes: 0

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology. Votes: 0

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition. Votes: 0

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made. Votes: 0

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom. Votes: 0

Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation. Votes: 0

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it. Votes: 0

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories. Votes: 0

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt. Votes: 0

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a homeTo be a member of one's community is to share in its myths Votes: 0

I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth. Votes: 0

The man who will be the future of the WWE. He will be right under me. He is the man, he is the myth, he is the legend, soon to be.. he is, Alex Riley. Votes: 0