You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
“Greater skill and value is found in creating a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form.… — VD Copy Share Image
“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the… — Javier Cazañ Copy Share Image
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be.… — Julius Segal Copy Share Image
Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All these misidentifications… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world–and the phrase “greatest myths” is just a fancy way of saying “big fat lies”–is… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“The great mythologist Joseph Campbell stated 'Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image