Myth Quotes · Page 20

There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute.

— Grant Imahara

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

— Joseph Campbell

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

— Alfred Rosenberg

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

— Barack Obama

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

— Karen O

“Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us?”

— C.J. Cherryh

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

— Anonymous

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have…

— Robin Roberts

“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as…

— Helen Morales

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

— David Denby

“It’s never too late to tell a good story, to create a new myth that rouses us from our intoxicated slumber, that…

— Derek Rydall

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is…

— Sebastian Junger

Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent…

— Ryan Holiday

There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not…

— Daniel Tammet

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted…

— Epicurus

Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All these misidentifications…

— Nirmala Srivastava

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us…

— Alan Lee

“They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman's beard, and…

— Ingri D'Aulaire

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood…

— Larry McMurtry

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to…

— Nina Fedoroff

“[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us. [a symbol] also…

— Dynamics of Faith Paul Tillich

I've had five grandparents who have had Alzheimer's. I've been involved in raising money for two decades, so I thought, how could…

— Jordan Banks

The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.

— Peter Hedges

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are…

— Irwin Edman

Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.

— Barry Gardiner

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

— Richard Dawkins

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

— James A. Baldwin

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

— Robert Lipsyte

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

— Nancy Pearcey

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

— Carl Sagan

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

— Joseph Campbell

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

— John C. Maxwell

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

— Mike Nichols

“Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a myth that people can blame, rather than the cold hand of unfeeling fate.”

— Matthew Mather

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

— Robert Anton Wilson

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

— Pauline Marois

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

— Robert D. Putnam

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

— Karl Popper