I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I hate to debunk the myth - kids don't wanna hear it - but as songwriters, you have to polish your craft… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be,… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Every time I open Facebook, I see a post with something like, "We must forgive or be prisoners of our own bitterness… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as… — Paul Louis Couchoud Copy Share Image
What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature… — Barry Moltz Copy Share Image
“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true.… — Kang Chol-hwan Copy Share Image
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children,… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image