Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How… — Angela Braly Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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
I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't;… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell 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
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensible in a liturgical context… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true.… — Kang Chol-hwan Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image