Myth Quotes · Page 12

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

— David Christian

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

— Tom Hiddleston

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

— Jeaniene Frost

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

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

— Robert Heller

“Myth: A stake through the heart will kill a vampire. Truth: Well, duh. It would kill anyone.”

— Kimberly Pauley

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

— Fred Kaplan

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

— Sinclair Lewis

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would…

— William Butler Yeats

Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed…

— Grete Waitz

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth.…

— John Crowley

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

— Karen Russell

“The reader will have noticed that one no longer treats the siege of Troy as a myth. To do so would be…

— Leonard William King

The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the…

— Cindy Sheehan

But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less…

— Gregory Bateson

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the…

— Paul Ricoeur

“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held…

— Helen Pilinovsky

All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed…

— Oliver Stone

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.…

— Michael Sheen

With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge…

— Arthur Demarest

Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the…

— John Seabrook

The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea…

— B. W. Powe

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

— John Maynard Smith

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

— Rumi

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

— Brené Brown

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a…

— Carre Otis

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

— Eileen Myles

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

— Rollo May

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

— Steve Lukather

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

— W. Averell Harriman

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

— Jennifer Stone

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

— Frank Waters

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

— David S. Goyer

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

— Octavio Paz