The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro! — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it. — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man. — Jennifer Nettles Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and… — Owen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself. Whereas in the… — Clarissa Johal Copy Share Image
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A lot of what we "know" about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth.” — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however. — Edd Roush Copy Share Image
“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are. — William Devane Copy Share Image
“Myth is truth which is subjective, intuitive, cultural and grounded in faith.” — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand… — Jeff McBride Copy Share Image
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
