Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel like as long as… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the… — David Bryant Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth,… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved… — Walt Simonson Copy Share Image
The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth -… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How… — Angela Braly Copy Share Image
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
“Well, someone told someone and someone told someone else, you know how it is, that if you filled jugs with water and… — Richard Yañez Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of… — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its… — Thomas Mann Mythology by Christopher Dell Copy Share Image
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children,… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
![“The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe] is either a false myth or else he represents the denial of human society. We can't play by ourselves. In literature, it's even more complicated, because one has…” quote by Dumitru Tepeneag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf4/dumitru-tepeneag-22841_abandon_the-literary-game-is-the-abyss-of-human_2143165.jpg)
![“It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.” quote by Paul Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a8/paul-watson-1855_believe_it-doesn-t-matter-what-is-true-it-only-m_2502730.jpg)
