I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“No follower of Christ knew the shape of the earth. For many centuries this great Peasant of Palestine has been worshiped as… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing… — Susannah Constantine Copy Share Image
Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“In the end the myth didn’t matter. What mattered in reality was a person’s character, what he did with the life and… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, the concept of myth is not simply a harmless feature of a primitive world-view, requiring only to be… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into… — Walter Burkert Copy Share Image
True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use… — Nomy Lamm Copy Share Image
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“There is no future in a sacred myth. Why not? Because of our curiosity. (...) Whatever we hold precious, we cannot protect… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride… — O. J. Simpson Copy Share Image
Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
