For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“The idea that IT professionals don’t need business acumen is a destructive myth.” — Al Kuebler Copy Share Image
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
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“He breathed in the briny air. In a far less dreamy tone, he asked, “How was Death?” Loki clicked his tongue. “He… — Kaylin Boyd Copy Share Image
“A nation without a myth drifts aimlessly throughout history. Myth gives purpose and meaning to the civilisation. Myth makes a people a… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve… — Michael Hudson 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
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
It's a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks. — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
“Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn’t like gargoyles.” — Shayla Orick Copy Share Image
There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Love is just a myth, true love on the other hand is a whole different story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major 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