[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the… — Joe Ehrmann Copy Share Image
The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So,… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage. — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image