Myth Quotes · Page 18

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Vivek Wadhwa

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

— Michel Tournier

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

— Cyril Connolly

“And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.”

— Tom Cheetham

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

— Emo Philips

“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,”

— Christopher Ryan

“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.”

— Margaret Atwood

By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a…

— Frederick Lenz

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.…

— Honore de Balzac

“Creationism doesn’t belong as a comparative to anything even remotely connected to reality, and by passing it off as anything other than…

— Al Stefanelli

“The same pattern of the creation by supernatural gods of an ordered Universe out of Chaos occurs over and over again in…

— Isaac Asimov

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme…

— John Bierhorst

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation…

— Joseph Campbell

The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine…

— Sergio Leone

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people…

— Anonymous

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that…

— Humphrey Carpenter

Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the…

— Vaclav Klaus

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your…

— Jill Scott

“The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers,…

— Joseph Campbell

I have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there…

— Luis Gutierrez

Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious…

— Brad Pitt

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

— Allen Tate

“The tempest hadn’t descended from the clouds—it had climbed from the depths.”

— Deni Ar Dente

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

— Dominic Monaghan

“There are more important things in life than chasing after this myth of perfection.”

— Alison G. Bailey

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

— Bob Kane

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

— Frank Waters

“The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.”

— Joseph Campbell

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

— Alan Moore

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

— Steve Fowler

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

— Karen Russell

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

— W. Edwards Deming

“We hold this myth to be potential Not self-evident but equational Another Dimension Of another kind of Living Life”

— Sun Ra

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

— Peter Wilson

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

— Steve Lukather

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

— Jennifer Stone

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

— W. Averell Harriman