Myths Quote by Ali Smith Download Open image ““It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.”” — Ali Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Myths Storytelling
“It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.” — Robert Roper Copy Share Image
“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Myths, it transpired, are stronger than anyone could have imagined.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter where the story comes from, it matters where it takes you.” — J.R. Meehl Copy Share Image
“Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of stories and legends is that they give us another way to understand ourselves and the place we inhabit.” — James C. Christensen Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be able to… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could taste it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“...he had simply typed the words something beautiful into the Google images box. Up came a picture of some leaves against the sun. A… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are? — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling.… — Ali Smith 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
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have… — 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 which is… — 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 made of… — 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 Greek myths… — 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 that then… — 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 the hooves.… — 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 to be.… — 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. Yet Spanish… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
