It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Myths that need clarification: Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach. False. The only people who live on California beaches… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
“Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the… — Shaffi Mather 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
Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives.… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby Copy Share Image
I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“It’s never too late to tell a good story, to create a new myth that rouses us from our intoxicated slumber, that… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
The man who will be the future of the WWE. He will be right under me. He is the man, he is… — The Miz Copy Share Image
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of… — Mark Matousek Copy Share Image
“Peace as rumor and hope as the stuff of myth is the manifestation of the person who cannot see beyond the short… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery… — Tom Harper Copy Share Image
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have… — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
“Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth." Adrien… — Louisa Burton Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of… — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
