Best 472 quotes in «myth quotes» category

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

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.

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

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.

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

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it...he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.

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

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

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

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

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

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

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

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

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

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.

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

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

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.

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

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

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.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

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

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

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

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

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

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

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

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

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.

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

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

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.

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

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.