Myth famous quotes

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.
-- Alberto Villoldo

#Hero #Mean #Myth

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#Blood #Soul #Myth

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
-- Alistair Cooke

#Sports #Facts #Myth

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy

#Myth #Absolute Truth #Approach

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
-- Anne Carson

#Past #Ends #Myth

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.
-- Ashwin Sanghi

#Lying #Adrenaline #Myth

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
-- Ashwin Sanghi

#Mythology #Myth

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.
-- Barack Obama

#Bullying #Normal #Myth

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
-- Barbara Tuchman

#Communism #Communist #Myth

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
-- Bob Kane

#Real #Legends #Myth

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
-- Bob Kane

#Separation #Difficult #Myth

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
-- Brené Brown

#Weakness #Dangerous #Myth

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
-- Bryan Sykes

#Evidence #Ambiguous #Myth

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.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Veils #Rich #Myth

The moment there is imagination there is myth
-- Camille Paglia

#Imagination #Moments #Myth

Myth is someone else's religion.
-- Caroline Llewellyn

#Myth

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
-- Christopher Bond

#Administration #Port #Myth

Magic is at the core of myths.
-- Colin Farrell

#Magic #Myth

There are a lot of myths about gay people.
-- Cynthia Nixon

#Gay #People #Myth

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.
-- Debora Spar

#Perfection #Partnership #Myth

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.
-- Diana Trilling

#People #Faces #Myth

Now is the time to become a myth.
-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Aging #Myth #Growing Older

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.
-- Dianne Feinstein

#Immigration #Borders #Myth

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.
-- Donna J. Haraway

#Tools #Myth

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Together #Fantasy #Myth

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

#Population #Should #Myth

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
-- Eric Chaisson

#Long #Enough #Myth

Myth is the nothing that is all.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Myth

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth
-- Francoise Giroud

#Difficult #Myth #Competing

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
-- Frank Waters

#Expansion #American History #Myth

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Myth #Stills #Theoretical

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

#Facts #Deny #Myth

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

#Powerful #Reality #Myth

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

#Culture #Dead Ends #Myth

We're separated by our myths.
-- Hugh Hefner

#Mythology #Myth

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

#Inspirational #Myth

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Stuff #Myth

Jackie Chan is a myth.
-- Jackie Chan

#Myth #Jackie

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.
-- James K. A. Smith

#Narrative #Myth

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

#Writing #Portraits #Myth

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

#Would Be #Myth

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
-- Jessica Lange

#Thinking #Feminist #Myth

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
-- Joan D. Vinge

#Stories #Myth

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

#Greek #Black #Myth

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

#Brain #Rockets #Myth

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.
-- Joseph Campbell

#Depth #Consciousness #Myth

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
-- Joseph Campbell

#Narrative #Metaphor #Myth

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.
-- Joseph Campbell

#Dream #World #Myth

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
-- Karl Popper

#Criticism #Myth

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

#People #Care #Myth

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

#True Friend #Hollywood #Myth

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.
-- Libby Larsen

#Communication #Technology #Myth

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

#Adrift #Myth #Galaxy

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Soil #Ancient #Myth

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
-- Margaret Halsey

#People #Ridiculous #Myth

There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
-- Marianne Faithfull

#Attitude #Myth #Turns

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.
-- Marilyn Quayle

#Brain #Wedding Ring #Myth

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

#Anecdotes #Spirit #Myth

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
-- Marlon Brando

#Success #Excellence #Myth

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
-- Meridel Le Sueur

#Lying #People #Myth

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.
-- Michael Tsarion

#Myth

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
-- Michel Tournier

#Function #Myth #Allegory

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth
-- Milla Jovovich

#People #Myth

The bearers of fables are very welcome.
-- Monique Wittig

#Fables #Welcome #Myth

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.
-- Nancy Etcoff

#Real #Ideas #Myth

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.
-- Natalie Angier

#Love Is #Eternal Love #Myth

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
-- Natalie Goldberg

#Who We Are #Accepting #Myth

All systems require myths for their longevity.
-- Nikki Giovanni

#Longevity #Myth

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
-- Norman Spinrad

#Manipulation #Mexico #Myth

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
-- Octavio Paz

#Men #Able #Myth

The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another
-- Oliver DeMille

#Myth #Humans #Educate

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
-- Pat Summitt

#Succeed #Individual #Myth

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

#Destiny #World #Myth

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.
-- Peter Brook

#Distance #Reality #Myth

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
-- Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#Real #Myth

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
-- Ransom Riggs

#Form #Myth

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
-- Riane Eisler

#Reality #Hands #Myth

American public policy is run on a myth.
-- Richard Lamm

#Running #Myth #Policy

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
-- Rick Santelli

#People #Needs #Myth

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
-- Robert Lipsyte

#Paper #May #Myth

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
-- Samuel R. Delany

#Opposites #Next #Myth

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?
-- Scott Steiner

#Legends #Myth #Phenomenon

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth
-- Smokey Robinson

#Myth #Motown

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

#Song #Emotion #Myth

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
-- Stacy Schiff

#Facts #Absence #Myth

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#Gossip #Myth

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#Myth

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

#Media #Violent #Myth

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
-- Stephen King

#Reality #Firsts #Myth

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
-- Steven T. Katz

#Fundamentals #Myth #Jew

Music is our myth of the inner life ...
-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Music #Music Is #Myth

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.
-- Suzy Kassem

#Lying #Myth

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
-- Ta-Nehisi Coates

#Taken #World #Myth

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

#People #Myth

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.
-- Timothy Freke

#Religion #Christianity #Myth

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
-- Timothy Leary

#Myth #Wanted

I am attracted to myths.
-- Tina Turner

#Myth

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

#Firsts #Myth #Workers

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

#Europe #Eastern Europe #Myth

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

#Stories #Modern #Myth