The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Myth is not about whether something is fact or fiction; myth is more about truth. Good myth, according to the old adage,… — Randy S. Woodley Copy Share Image
“There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life is inherently preferable… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to… — Seth Copy Share Image
It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Salt is a powerful symbol in Haiti, as elsewhere. Salt of the earth, for example is an American phrase. In Haiti, myth… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the fact that the express purpose of God's Deluge is to kill off most of mankind--apart, of course, from Noah… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you,… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and… — Robert M. Utley Copy Share Image
When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Sciences have the view of looking at the world as individual pieces and this has been going on now for about 300… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
“Our definition of ‘myth’ in common parlance: a widely believed, but false story. That’s the definition Anant so helpfully illustrated. But that’s… — Jordanna Max Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
“Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What makes someone mythic is not whether or not he lived, or lived well, but whether or not he was larger than… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“National historical myths are a way of giving identity and more authenticity to a people. Exodus flattered the Jews half a millennium… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
![“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick…” quote by Pedro Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/71a/pedro-meyer-46329_abuse_before-the-myth-of-photography-doesn-t-l_152663.jpg)
