The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.
When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
