Myth Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

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.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

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

Myth is the nothing that is all.

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.

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.

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

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

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

I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing. We did it on Hellboy and we did it on 'Don't be afraid of the dark'.

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

In the beginning was the myth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

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

I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if you still love the dirt, then I think you should stay on board.

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?

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!

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

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

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

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.

Conscience is better served by a myth.

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

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

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

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.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

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

The balanced life is a goal, but for us it is mostly a myth.

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

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

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.