The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by… — David Watson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“The tempest hadn’t descended from the clouds—it had climbed from the depths.” — Deni Ar Dente Copy Share Image
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. — Northrop Frye 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
“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes -… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image