Myth Quotes · Page 22

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

— Roy Wilkins

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

— Junot Diaz

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

— Joseph Campbell

India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.

— Amitava Kumar

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

— Grace Jones

I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!

— Travis Scott

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

— Rene Girard

“As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued,…

— Bruce Berger

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd…

— Daniel Radcliffe

...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she…

— Francesca Lia Block

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel…

— Isaac Asimov

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's…

— Barbra Streisand

I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're…

— Ben Stein

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness…

— Ann Druyan

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living…

— Clyde S. Kilby

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of…

— Paul Feyerabend

“You walked into this village with a thunder tiger beside you. You have slain demons with your own hands. Are the old…

— Jay Kristoff

The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight…

— Daniel Dennett

The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part…

— Maurice Hayes

In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening,…

— Anais Nin

The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are…

— Naomi Weisstein

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern…

— Tim Cahill

With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis…

— Eric A. Hanushek

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

— Dianne Feinstein

I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

— Jennifer Nettles

As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

— Tim Gunn

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

— Anonymous

I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

— William Shatner

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

— Dustin Hoffman

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

— Sean Lennon

“Nothing is 'mythic,' close up. Nothing is 'mythic' where you live.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another

— Oliver DeMille

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

— Robert Bringhurst

There's a myth on the Internet that I'm afraid of heights. I don't know where that came from, but it isn 't…

— Nicholas Hammond

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

— C. S. Lewis

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

— Rollo May

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

— Elizabeth Janeway