The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. — David Christian Copy Share Image
I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable. — Hozier Copy Share Image
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know;… — Jeanne Damas Copy Share Image
Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make… — Tom Shields Copy Share Image
Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its version. It's universal. One of the things that is most fascinating about studying mythology is how so many… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a… — Karen MacNeil Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think the food giants are realizing that one of the big myths of them is that they can innovate. — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths. — David Pogue Copy Share Image
“Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.” — Tim Palmer Copy Share Image
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
“Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and take my name out of the history books so I would be a myth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.” — Rolland Hein Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of drama schools. They only perpetuate the myth that everyone can do what I do — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops. — Marilyn Quayle Copy Share Image
