Myth Quotes · Page 17

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

— Janis Joplin

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

— Samuel R. Delany

“There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.”

— Allan Wesler

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

— Kim Hyesoon

Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.

— Bertrand Piccard

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

— Konrad Lorenz

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

— Natalie Angier

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous…

— Moby

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application…

— Arthur Jones

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately…

— Andrew Sullivan

“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that…

— Siri Hustvedt

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the…

— Yoko Ono

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

— Jordan Peterson

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former…

— Krista Allen

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one;…

— Leslie Fiedler

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are…

— Robert Jordan

“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer,…

— Vera Nazarian

Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism…

— Sherman Alexie

“The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking…

— Tahir Shah

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind… Furthermore, no geological evidence…

— Fred Hoyle

What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you…

— Michael Ende

I think a lot of kids do dream in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of…

— Gavin Friday

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,…

— D. M. Thomas

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

— Northrop Frye

“If you are not a myth Whose reality are you? And if you are not reality Whose myth are you?”

— Sun Ra Arkestra

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

— Anonymous

“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”

— Stephen Fry

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

— Eldridge Cleaver

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

— James Dyson

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

— John Fowles

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

— Meg Cabot

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

— Christopher Moore

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.

— Vera Nazarian

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white…

— David Antin

“The idea that IT professionals don’t need business acumen is a destructive myth.”

— Al Kuebler

“When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.”

— Jennifer Silverwood

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

— Helen Fisher