“Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“National historical myths are a way of giving identity and more authenticity to a people. Exodus flattered the Jews half a millennium… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“What makes someone mythic is not whether or not he lived, or lived well, but whether or not he was larger than… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two.… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live… — Alexis Steinhauer Copy Share Image
There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending… — Mizuko Ito Copy Share Image
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. When you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to… — Vernon Johnson Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to… — Seth Copy Share Image
“There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life is inherently preferable… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
Salt is a powerful symbol in Haiti, as elsewhere. Salt of the earth, for example is an American phrase. In Haiti, myth… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the fact that the express purpose of God's Deluge is to kill off most of mankind--apart, of course, from Noah… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you,… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
![“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick…” quote by Pedro Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71a/pedro-meyer-46329_abuse_before-the-myth-of-photography-doesn-t-l_152663.jpg)
