For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths. — David Pogue Copy Share Image
“They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.” — Robert Roper Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest myths is that education cannot flourish with regulation. Another myth is that wherever the state sponsors… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
“Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If we began deconstructing the myths at the heart of every religion, we would be citizens of a Marxian Utopia. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths propagated about… — John Howard Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“This culture destroys landbases. That's what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.” — Deborah Curtis Copy Share Image
“you cannot organise masses of people effectively without relying on some fictional myths.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.” — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
