The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby Copy Share Image
I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have… — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Peace as rumor and hope as the stuff of myth is the manifestation of the person who cannot see beyond the short… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of… — Mark Matousek Copy Share Image
“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery… — Tom Harper Copy Share Image
“Why are you here?" "To fetch the woman I cut from the veil of the rock." “Why did you cut?" "To send… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religions that progress… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12… — Conan Stevens Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
The man who will be the future of the WWE. He will be right under me. He is the man, he is… — The Miz Copy Share Image
“As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued,… — Bruce Berger Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason… — William Powell Copy Share Image
You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the… — Javier Cazañ Copy Share Image
“Greater skill and value is found in creating a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form.… — VD Copy Share Image
Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
