Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims. — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.” — Patti Callahan Copy Share Image
Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance. — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
“Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“You are the storm’s echo, and the fire’s breath. You are the hinge upon which the next world turns.” — Elijah Stepanovich Copy Share Image
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous… Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level… — David Haye 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
“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks,… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“To the modernist, “myth,” like religion, merely signifies a comfortable and entrenched lie. For the postmodernist, myth simply represents one story, one… — Bradley J. Birzer Copy Share Image
Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me. — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own. — Therese Rein Copy Share Image
The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. — Richard Condon Copy Share Image