Quotes of: Myths Keyword

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

Jacques Audiard

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

To be a devil isn't so bad; to be a devil that can still see beauty, still remember what it was like to be in the sight of the most holy, now that was an obscenity, and that was what I was.

The Innocent: A Myth

I’m a virgin, okay?” There was a moment of silence while I assume he was struggling to understand the connection. Then he spoke. “I’m not prejudiced against anyone.

The Innocent: A Myth

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland

In my family nudity just doesn’t exist; I’m pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.

My Life as a Myth

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

Looking for God in Harry Potter

In the blink of an eye, the fairytales told to children were as real as death and taxes. Vampires, shifters, trolls, demons and creatures of myth, were as real as the air we breathe.

Macabre

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth

Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

Hilary Mantel

In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

Phillip E. Johnson

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

Paul McCartney

If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

Randall Kennedy

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

Sebastian Junger

When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

Kevin Mitnick