Myth Quotes · Page 21

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

— Sinclair Lewis

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

— Fred Kaplan

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

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

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

— Jeaniene Frost

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

— Ashley Montagu

It's a myth created by my 'well-wishers' that I used to have long drinking sessions every night with my cronies.

— Shatrughan Sinha

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman…

— Angela Carter

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in…

— Thomas Szasz

“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with…

— Ann Wroe

Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been…

— Alice Walker

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner…

— Camille Paglia

Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential…

— Satyananda Saraswati

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I…

— Lili Taylor

Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its…

— Tim Lott

“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try…

— Steven Weinberg

I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That,…

— Gretchen Rubin

Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I…

— George Soros

“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar…

— Todor Bombov

There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the…

— Shaffi Mather

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

— Octavio Paz

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

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

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

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 have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

— James Lane Allen

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

— John Powell

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

— Hunter S. Thompson

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

— Edward Zwick