Myths Quotations

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.

Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality.

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.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

With each film, I get more and more involved and it's more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and people's preconceived ideas. My characters have always stood for something, have always had an opinion, although they've never really rebelled.

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.

What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

There goes another excuse to not exercise that we can't use anymore ... What's left? I think all the myths about what's bad about exercise have now been debunked. There are no more excuses. Exercise is good for our general health, and if we know what's good for us, we should get out there and exercise.

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.

Many companies are still locked into the myths of the past.

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

One of the enduring myths of campaign analysis is that you can actually count the number of 'undecided' voters by asking voters if they are undecided or not. Sometimes, significant numbers of voters actually change their minds.

I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths propagated about my attitude to industrial relations is that I believe in lower wages. I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

But there have been a lot of myths about how special schools are very special, with more one-to-one and so on, with not a lot of evidence that that is the case. What there is evidence of is that if children with special needs mix with others, it helps to make people in society more accepting of difference.

Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.

There are so many negative myths about black male athletes, myths that I have personally committed myself to eradicating. But all of my actions will never carry the media clout or have the domino effect of one of Mike Tyson's misdeeds.

Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You can tell them straight, or you can add your own twists. If it's a story kids already know, they'll try to correct you if you stray, but that's part of the fun. You can make each story your own.

Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.

I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.

The artist and the political activist are one. They are both shapers of the future reality. Both understand and manipulate the collective myths of the race. Both are warriors, priests, lovers, and destroyers.

We have built up many myths and one of the myths that we have built up is that saturated fat is bad for us and that?s not true.

USG's other announcement today, its earnings report, also explodes the myths advanced by advocates of S.852, that the bill must be passed to save jobs lost through the enormous financial pain being endured by big corporate asbestos defendants. In its press release, the company reports 'Record Fourth Quarter 2005 Net Sales of $1.3 billion.' That the Senate would now shower companies like USG with even more benefits from S.852 is mind-boggling.

We came to hopefully introduce people to the nudist lifestyle. We want to dispel some of the myths about our lifestyle. It is about freedom of the body, spirit and mind, not sexual.

This story is surrounded by myths and cliches and I worked hard to get through and find out what was true.

We want to bridge the cross-cultural gap between our people and countries. We want to bring people together and dispel the myths about each country. There are lots of misconceptions. They are begging for reformation of their laws. They want real law and order.

There are a lot of myths out there... and a lot of people think the grass is greener on the other side. But once they do some research or quit and go somewhere else, they realize it's not all that different.

There are a lot of myths about what the evidence is in this case, ... Some of them are misunderstandings based upon erroneous media reports, some spring from confusion in the evidence itself, and some are the result of concerted partisan distortion.

There are all kinds of myths going on in the Italian culture, and the way they celebrate is through their food. It's the tradition of the table where the Italians celebrate most of their triumphs and successes.

Two-thirds of what we call New Orleans culture is really myth-making, ... People feed myths of the city back to the city. These myths are now in pieces.

We want to eliminate the myths about hiring people with disabilities.

We should build our relations honestly, on mutually beneficial conditions, and not base them on myths and manipulations, as Lukashenko does.

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

They are all ultimately promoting the sport, each with a distinct style. These guys are creating the legends and myths that will drive our sport for the next decades. People will look back at these movies and chart the evolution of our sport.

These myths have crept in the public discussion about FAA funding and they have gained undeserved credibility.

of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.

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 each departure from your decision.

They felt a lot of Garbo myths were wrong. It was unfair to her they hadn't been corrected. It would have been very interesting to do a documentary with the family alone.

There's a lot of fear. Sometimes that old collection of myths and stories about what a Pagan is just stands in the way.

It's more awareness of the staff and within the community. Sometimes, (organ donation) has a kind of Frankenstein-ish image to it. We try to dispel those myths about it.

It will leapfrog the myths that stifle change, ... rejecting the notion that there is no middle ground between environmental protection regardless of the cost and energy exploration regardless of the impact.

They will help Americans to cut through all the fads and all the myths concerning our diets,

There's two principal myths about shamrock: that it's unique to Ireland, and that it never flowers.

If you let imagination run in both towers, you could see why people spin stories about them, ... Aikwood is very impressive to look at. Its dark defensible buildings are very Tolkien in stature. It was really quite intriguing to investigate how the myths got attached to that tower. I looked at the masonry marks on the fireplace and they are a similar shape to the crescent moons on the Scot family coat-of-arms.

In preparing educators, although we look at the trends, we also look at myths and stereotypes. Rather than make sure boys get more attention in writing, or girls in math, we typically look at a group of students who needs more help in writing -- whether it's boys or girls.

I hope his testimony does not create myths around HIV. These are indeed myths.

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Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one.

He's mythological to me, like Zeus or Thor. I don't want to dispel all the myths and mysteries that surround some of his stuff, which I think is just absolutely phenomenal, inspiring and righteous.

Great cultural myths deserve to be added to. We've done this throughout time immemorial, starting with the Greeks.

The education process is about myth busting. One of the biggest myths is (colon cancer) is not prevalent in women.