Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not… — John Piper Copy Share Image
All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself. Whereas in the… — Clarissa Johal Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth,… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives.… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and… — Gregory Alan Thornbury Copy Share Image
This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“But no-one came here to live an ordinary life. Despite what our somnambulistic, mythless society society tells us — a place stuffed… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“In actuality, myths are neither fiction nor history. Nor are most myths—and this will surprise some people—an amalgamation of fiction and history.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I see "demand creation" as a 20th-century construct that's bound up with advertising. It's an outmoded view of marketing that says, "First,… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life. Myth basically serves four functions. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though… — Bernie Siegel M.D Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
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