Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know;… — Jeanne Damas Copy Share Image
The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“He breathed in the briny air. In a far less dreamy tone, he asked, “How was Death?” Loki clicked his tongue. “He… — Kaylin Boyd Copy Share Image
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“A nation without a myth drifts aimlessly throughout history. Myth gives purpose and meaning to the civilisation. Myth makes a people a… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that,… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
“Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths… — John Fante Copy Share Image
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and… — Craig Shirley Copy Share Image
Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising… — Chip Giller Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world - and the phrase 'greatest myths is just a fancy way of saying 'big… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
