Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as… — Misha Glenny
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is… — Charlie Pierce
Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that… — James Hillman
There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on… — Alison Jackson
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it. — Grace Jones
Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the reasons we look… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however. — Edd Roush
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek… — Anne Fortier
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. — J.R.R. Tolkien
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology,… — Philipp Meyer
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West. — Philipp Meyer
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that… — Neil MacGregor
2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to… — Ben Shapiro
What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and… — Elaine Pagels
There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than… — Shaffi Mather
The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is… — Louis de Broglie
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. — Oscar Isaac
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible. — S. Jay Olshansky
Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade.… — Ha-Joon Chang
It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are… — Ha-Joon Chang
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods… — Kate Bernheimer
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert
I am not a myth. — Marlene Dietrich
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. — V. S. Pritchett

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