Myth Quotes · Page 50

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

— Pat Summitt

In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that…

— Robert Bringhurst

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm…

— Annie Leibovitz

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical…

— Robert M. Price

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems…

— David Lynch

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

— John Edgar Wideman

When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told…

— Tupac Shakur

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk…

— Jez Butterworth

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— Anonymous

It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and…

— Hugh Hefner

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

— Nancy Pearcey

“It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at…

— Karen Healey

It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea…

— Peter Mullan

Every gay person must come out.... Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie,…

— Harvey Milk

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

The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle.…

— Deborah Meier

“The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.”

— Joseph Campbell

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess.

— Dov Davidoff

I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

— Jennifer Nettles

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the…

— Lee Gutkind

“Through Action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through Death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through Time, a Legend becomes a Myth. Through…

— uknown

The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’? -’A happy one, of course.’ -’Wrong. A…

— Madeline Miller

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