Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
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
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. — Alma Guillermoprieto 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
There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and… — Mitski Copy Share Image
God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. — Cecil Day-Lewis 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
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
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
“As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that,… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced… — Joseph Campbell 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
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
