Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that. — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image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
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather… — Kamal Haasan 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
When I went through my eating disorder, I never sought medical assistance. I created myths in my head about how I should… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a… — Jennifer Grant 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
2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic… — Ben Shapiro 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
We overhype everything. We create monumental myths. There are people who still believe that Brandi Chastain and the U.S. women's World Cup… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… — Margaret Atwood 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
“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“In their purest form myths, not unlike tragedy, are perhaps the most important moment in the troubled history of Mexican civilization. The… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of… — Richard Le Gallienne 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
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute. — Grant Imahara 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
The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of… — Emma Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
![“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a story of a certain kind. The myths of a culture…” quote by Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b2/margaret-atwood-40_books_northrop-frye-was-concerned-mostly-with_1619694.jpg)
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