History Quote by Adrian Dunbar Download Open image “Myth is sometimes more important than history.” — Adrian Dunbar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Important More Sometimes Storytelling
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but… — Modris Eksteins 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
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
“History could be as arbitrary as poetry, he told himself: what is history, other than a matter of choice, the picking and choosing of… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We're in a golden age for television. TV 25 years ago was slow, plodding , boring. The production values were not great. Today it's… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Any mother watching her son achieve his dreams shares that success at some level. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I'm not sure about doing 10 takes of running up a flight of stairs, whether I'm really up to that... but I'll definitely have… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
The 'Mother of God' stuff comes from my dad who used to use that all the time. He would say, 'Mother of God' all… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
We were always reminded by our teachers that careers take off at different times. They held up Arthur Lowe as a great example of… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
You really can't pigeon hole yourself into one particular artistic area any more; the days of one vocation in the arts have long gone. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I was really proud of the response to the first series of 'Blood.' Right from the get-go I knew it was a really good… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
The Frank Matcham theaters in the West End in particular are incredible pieces of architecture. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
There was a big thing in the Behan family of achieving and wanting to be something special. There was a big drive in the… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I think if we had an All-Ireland economy and the North was in the U.K. and in the E.U. that would be very good… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I know a lot of actors who have said to me, 'who'd have thought you could put a two-shot on screen for twenty minutes… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
