The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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 interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level… — David Haye Copy Share Image
"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths."… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. “He’s a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum,” says one… — Jessica Burke Anthony Burdge Kristine Larsen Copy Share Image
“One of the misconceptions about atheism is that it somehow means someone denies the possibility of a deity. In all actuality, it… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive.… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
You must forgive everyone. Now many would say that "We cannot forgive, it's very difficult." But it's a myth whether you forgive… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill,… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people… — Walther von Brauchitsch Copy Share Image
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The position of the palms together- this we use when we pray, do we not? That is a greeting that says that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths… — John Fante Copy Share Image
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak Copy Share Image
Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
