Myth Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

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.

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.

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

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

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

As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

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

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

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

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

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.

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

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

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

We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

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

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.

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.

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

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

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.

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

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.

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.

If you do not have the courage to be yourself, what will you be?

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Computers are like Old Testament gods

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort.

Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan

The only un-distractable, un-destructable, "thing", yet also the foundation of all pure creation, is "nothing.

Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn’t like gargoyles.