Myth Quotes · Page 12

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

— Malcolm Gladwell

The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.

— Robert Lepage

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

— Ted Malloch

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

— James Altucher

There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.

— Therese Rein

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

— Norman Spinrad

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

— William Irwin Thompson

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea…

— Bill Keller

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they…

— Herbert Schiller

Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world…

— Stephen H. Furrer

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War…

— Robert Reich

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's…

— Helen Fisher

Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer.…

— Phyllis McGinley

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot…

— Emma Thompson

For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little…

— Phyllis McGinley

Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the…

— Vaclav Klaus

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that…

— Humphrey Carpenter

Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant,…

— Celia Green

Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious…

— Brad Pitt

I have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there…

— Luis Gutierrez

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these…

— Epicurus

The subjects in my work appear as unidentified ghosts that can't be said to be of this world. I've decided to call…

— Hyon Gyon

Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists.…

— Clifford A. Pickover

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

— Paul Di Filippo

There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.

— Howard Schultz

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

— Anonymous

When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

— Andre Alexis

“You are the storm’s echo, and the fire’s breath. You are the hinge upon which the next world turns.”

— Elijah Stepanovich

“Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

— Arjuna Ardagh

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

— Russell M. Nelson

“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.”

— Patti Callahan

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

— Caryl Rivers

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

— Colin Farrell

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

— Charles Rangel

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

— Jessica Lange

“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.”

— Madeleine L'Engle