Mythical Quotes

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I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember… — William S. Burroughs
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models… — Maya Lin
In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. — Will Rogers
I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege… — Anita Roddick
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and… — Ludwig von Mises
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes — Murray Edelman
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.… — Dennis McKinsey
...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical… — Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I… — John B. S. Haldane
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to… — Tom Segalstad
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief — Jacques Ellul
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires. — Rem Koolhaas
Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express… — Abraham Maslow
Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow… — Annie Laurie Gaylor
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters… — Natalie Goldberg
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and… — Chris Hedges
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves… — C.S. Lewis
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons… — David Bentley Hart

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