It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate… — Jean O'Leary Copy Share Image
“How sad for us that I have made a myth of us when what keeps me from sleeping is the memory of...your… — Eireann Corrigan Copy Share Image
“The twin enemies of mythology are logic and empirical data, the chief weapons of true science. If either weapon is neutralized, mythology… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story… — John Granger Copy Share Image
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy… — George Murray Copy Share Image
If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Every gay person must come out… Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie,… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Myths are the retrospective transfiguration of sacrificial crises, the reinterpretation of those crises in light of the cultural order that has arisen… — René Girard Copy Share Image
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand… — Jeff McBride Copy Share Image
“I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and… — Owen Hopkins Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
