Myth Quotes

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

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

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

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

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

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

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.

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.

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

The first myth of management is that it exists.

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

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

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

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

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

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

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

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.

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

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

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.

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.

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

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

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

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

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.

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

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

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

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.

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

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.

I drag my myth around with me.

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.

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

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

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

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