Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world… — Stephen H. Furrer Copy Share Image
It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt —… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial… — Leo Bogart Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
“Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior,… — Tom Flynn Copy Share Image
Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former… — Krista Allen Copy Share Image
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one;… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
“Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“A myth can be picked up by a whole society, believed and taught to the next generation. Gods, fairies, witches—believing a thing… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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