If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will. — David Christian Copy Share Image
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at… — Pankaj Patel Copy Share Image
“- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away.… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major Copy Share Image
“And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
