Myth Quotes
-
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents.
-
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
-
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
-
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
-
I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
-
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
-
To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
-
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
-
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
-
My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
-
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
-
Jackie Chan is a myth.
-
There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.
-
Myth: Bernanke Fed is committed to stimulus until a recovery occurs. Fact: The current monetary policy assures further capital destruction.
-
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
-
I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
-
There are a lot of myths about gay people.
-
Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
-
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
-
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
-
This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.
-
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
-
Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly – not what you expect in a western.
-
I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.
