Quotes of: Myths Keyword

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

The Beauty Myth

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

The Beauty Myth

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

The Beauty Myth

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 really an attitude, you know.

Marianne Faithfull

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Tom Hooper

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

John Howe

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

Charles Hazlewood

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

Jack White

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan

Les mythes débutent presque toujours par un état de désordre extrême.

I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

The Magus

Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

Master of Stupidity

Your endurance is strongly influenced by your fundamental myth about the fighting.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

The Sin Collector: Thomas

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

The Power of Myth

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

Welcome to Braggsville

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.

David Miliband

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

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

Philipp Meyer