I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us?” — C.J. Cherryh Copy Share Image
What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of atheists in foxholes. What I don't see are Christians in foxholes. If a Christian soldier takes a bullet… — Sam Singleton Copy Share Image
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
