What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
“Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important… — James Christensen Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Find your myth. As Joseph Campbell observed, "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Well, someone told someone and someone told someone else, you know how it is, that if you filled jugs with water and… — Richard Yañez Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
“A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . .… — Lucy O'Brien Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form.… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not… — Melissa Farley Copy Share Image
I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a… — Mitch Lasky Copy Share Image
When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
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![“Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form. He was not frozen when his life ended. He's not in some frozen vault right now waiting to make a big comeback.” quote by Pat Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f1/pat-williams-22657_anti-semitic_well-just-to-dispel-all-the-myths-walt-d_2364114.png)
![“When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.” quote by Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5cd/bill-maher-211_answers_when-those-myths-were-created-when-the-b_2477028.png)
