The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
“And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.” — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was… — Lester Bangs 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
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
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
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker 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
“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
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
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
The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things,… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
