The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about fatherhood that you get given a direct phone number to talk to Santa and tell him how your… — Chris Ramsey Copy Share Image
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked… — Linda Evans Copy Share Image
The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Myth: Vampires have huge stockpiles of gold and treasure. Truth: If that were true, I'd be able to get my dad to… — Kimberly Pauley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“But no-one came here to live an ordinary life. Despite what our somnambulistic, mythless society society tells us — a place stuffed… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results —… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe.… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, "myth stands over against the truth (aletheia) of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we… — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
“Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we… — Proclus Copy Share Image
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and… — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Copy Share Image
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes -… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image