But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy.… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one. — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids… — Reg E. Cathey Copy Share Image
“He carried her over the Owl Creek mountain range without stopping,” he said, quietly this time. “He carried her until he reached… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth. — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“Truth or myth, it is only for me to know. Come with me into the rich texture of Bizco's kingdom.” — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it. — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image