Myth Quotes · Page 3

The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.

— Derek Walcott

“Orgasms are a myth. Like good credit scores.”

— Kelly Moran

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.

— Patty Jenkins

American public policy is run on a myth.

— Richard Lamm

“Myths are often entertaining, but they're never very helpful.”

— Lemony Snicket

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.

— Nirmala Srivastava

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

— Nathan Parsons

It's a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks.

— Steven Gundry

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

— James Dyson

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

— Eldridge Cleaver

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

— Jorge Luis Borges

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

— Meg Cabot

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

— Christopher Moore

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when…

— Amber Benson

“The position of the palms together- this we use when we pray, do we not? That is a greeting that says that…

— Joseph Campbell

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find…

— Aldous Huxley

i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice…

— Rick Riordan

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is…

— Anonymous

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.…

— Hilary Mantel

Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people…

— Walther von Brauchitsch

Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and…

— Ron Paul

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke…

— Oscar Wilde

Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth -…

— Callie Khouri

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that…

— Roger Ross Williams

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent,…

— Tim O'Shea

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach…

— Helen Morales

I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that…

— Hannes Alfven

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

— Anais Nin

“the thing I came for: [...] the thing itself and not the myth”

— Adrienne Rich

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

— C. S. Lewis

You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you.

— Ville Valo

“Myth murdering myth: that's war these days.”

— William H. Gass

“The happy family is a myth for many.”

— Carolyn Spring

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

— Gloria Naylor

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

— Laird Barron