A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white… — David Antin Copy Share Image
“The idea that IT professionals don’t need business acumen is a destructive myth.” — Al Kuebler Copy Share Image
“When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.” — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics... — Loren Mosher Copy Share Image
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives.… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet… — Italo Calvino 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 have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
As to the myth about Fat Girls and certain abilities to achieve multiple...ummm...my only comment on THAT topic, having both thin and… — Owen J McClain Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The signs of the old flame, I know them well. I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down… — Virgil Copy Share Image
The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that… — Ginette Paris Copy Share Image
Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children.… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Any one can be a leader is often a passing myth, not always a lasting truth.” — Neena Verma Copy Share Image
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.” — Deborah Curtis Copy Share Image
