Myth Quotes · Page 24

“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.”

— Tom Robbins

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

— Anonymous

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

— Peter Higgs

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

— Dorothy Norman

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

— Eddie Huang

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

— John Bacon

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

— Anonymous

I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an…

— Woody Allen

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn…

— Billy Corgan

Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The…

— Stephen Covey

I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the…

— Yann Martel

It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for…

— George Galloway

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to…

— Phillip E. Johnson

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride…

— O. J. Simpson

“There is no future in a sacred myth. Why not? Because of our curiosity. (...) Whatever we hold precious, we cannot protect…

— Daniel C. Dennett

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen…

— Albert Einstein

I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so…

— DJ Spooky

Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So,…

— Meg Ryan

“Time slipped and slid around him, unanchored by any fact that could be verified. Perhaps it did not matter. 'Where does our…

— Ann Wroe

Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,…

— Murray Bookchin

“This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent…

— Jack Kevorkian

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

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same…

— Anonymous

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

— William Shatner

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

— Dustin Hoffman

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

— Sean Lennon

“Nothing is 'mythic,' close up. Nothing is 'mythic' where you live.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another

— Oliver DeMille

There's a myth on the Internet that I'm afraid of heights. I don't know where that came from, but it isn 't…

— Nicholas Hammond

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

— Robert Bringhurst

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

— Umberto Eco

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

— Dean Koontz

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess.

— Dov Davidoff

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

— Roy Wilkins

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

— Rob Bell

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

— Jorge Valdano

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

— Joseph Campbell

India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.

— Amitava Kumar