I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride… — O. J. Simpson Copy Share Image
“There is no future in a sacred myth. Why not? Because of our curiosity. (...) Whatever we hold precious, we cannot protect… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Every gay person must come out… Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie,… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two.… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“National historical myths are a way of giving identity and more authenticity to a people. Exodus flattered the Jews half a millennium… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“What makes someone mythic is not whether or not he lived, or lived well, but whether or not he was larger than… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy… — George Murray Copy Share Image
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
“The great mythologist Joseph Campbell stated 'Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
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