The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else.” — Arthur Japin Copy Share Image
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say… — Euvin Naidoo Copy Share Image
“Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your… — Welwyn Wilton Katz Copy Share Image
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by… — David Watson Copy Share Image
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
