“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not… — Melissa Farley Copy Share Image
Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form.… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . .… — Lucy O'Brien Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensible in a liturgical context… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a… — Mitch Lasky Copy Share Image
When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to… — Jeffrey Hunter Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes,… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
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