I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Anachron’s Law: There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it. Anachron’s Corollary: There is no truth… — George Hammond Copy Share Image
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were… — Dwight Longenecker Copy Share Image
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and… — Lights Copy Share Image
“Wolves attack the hindquarters of prey first, biting into the animal's meaty rump or ham. They stay away from the tendons near… — Jon T. Coleman Copy Share Image
Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“The ancient Numantians are to this day Spain’s paragons of heroism and patriotism, cast as role models for the country’s young people.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The bedroom tax turfed people, many of them disabled, out of their homes, while the government disseminated myths about people living it… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The things that are myths. Vampires dont have fangs, dont need them. They can go out in the day but just dont… — Jade Copy Share Image
I'm no longer religious, but the Bible fascinates me. Hardly anyone reads it anymore, but it's got everything: it's a book of… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
