If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we… — Dorothy Norman Copy Share Image
There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Through Action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through Death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through Time, a Legend becomes a Myth. Through… — uknown Copy Share Image
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“In their purest form myths, not unlike tragedy, are perhaps the most important moment in the troubled history of Mexican civilization. The… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
“The historical truth is a fiction. OK, I did whatever I could to find out what happened from surviving friends, family and… — William Pryor Copy Share Image
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.” — Allan Wesler Copy Share Image
In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you are not a myth Whose reality are you? And if you are not reality Whose myth are you?” — Sun Ra Arkestra Copy Share Image
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight. — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
“Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn’t like gargoyles.” — Shayla Orick Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
