I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs… — Shulamith Firestone 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
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil. — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
People believe that if a hijra curses you, bad things will happen. That God Ram blessed hijras with this power, that our… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth. — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make… — Robert Bringhurst 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
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white… — David Antin Copy Share Image
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
