“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives.… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna... There's a… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Myths that need clarification: Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach. False. The only people who live on California beaches… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness… — Marco Vassi Copy Share Image
Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, the concept of myth is not simply a harmless feature of a primitive world-view, requiring only to be… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“In the end the myth didn’t matter. What mattered in reality was a person’s character, what he did with the life and… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image