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337 Myths quotes by 259 unique authors

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical… — Stanley Kubrick
It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in… — Asger Jorn
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this… — Asger Jorn
Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code. — Denis MacShane
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we… — Jack Zipes
I drag my myth around with me. — Orson Welles
By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped… — Frederick Lenz
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in… — Hooman Majd
For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths. — David Pogue
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter
I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. — David S. Goyer
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss… — Erich Fromm
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of… — Henry Louis Gates
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine. — Mason Cooley
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally.… — Ann Druyan
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is… — Marianne Faithfull
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over… — Dag Hammarskjold
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The… — Hypatia
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman. — Bob Kane
There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken… — Evel Knievel
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me… — Anne Lamott
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's… — John Lennon
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major

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