Myth Quotes · Page 25

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

— Bel Kaufman

It's a myth that you need thousands of pounds to start a business.

— Sara Davies

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

— Jo Nesbo

“Truth or myth, it is only for me to know. Come with me into the rich texture of Bizco's kingdom.”

— Maria Mitchell

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

— Stanley Crouch

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

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

— Northrop Frye

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

— Luke Davies

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good,…

— Deborah Bull

In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis…

— Phillip E. Johnson

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,…

— C. S. Lewis

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the…

— Hans Arp

Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every…

— Rollo May

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at…

— Tom Wolfe

“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, far from being unreliable historians or merely clever inventors of myth and legend, reveal themselves to be…

— Timothy J. Stoner

“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I…

— Russell Crowe

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the…

— Jonathan Raban

Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story…

— Joseph Campbell

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become…

— Karen Armstrong

If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What…

— Oliver Stone

“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh…

— Lavie Tidhar

Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked…

— Karen Armstrong

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

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

— Maya Deren

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

— Stephen Bayley

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

— Gilbert Ryle

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

— James Hillman

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

— Diodorus Siculus

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

— Roberto Calasso

Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.

— Anne Waldman

“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.”

— Margaret Atwood

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

— Frank Herbert

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a…

— Henry Jackman

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side…

— Jonathan Haidt

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back…

— Ross Macdonald

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you…

— Diane Lane