My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world - and the phrase 'greatest myths is just a fancy way of saying 'big… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as… — David Shi Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising… — Chip Giller Copy Share Image
Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and… — Craig Shirley Copy Share Image
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths… — Clint Catalyst Copy Share Image
People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that,… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know;… — Jeanne Damas Copy Share Image
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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