Myth Quotes

• 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
  • Ideas
  • Facts
  • Fiction

• 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.

  

  Chris Priestley
  • Story
  • Legend
  • No Truth

• The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Way

• If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Dream
  • Share
  • Grows

• The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Guys
  • Myth

• Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Culture
  • Scientist

• You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

  

  Humphrey Carpenter
  • Ideas
  • Term
  • Invention

• But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Speak
  • Complicated
  • Glamorous

• My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Waves
  • Myth
  • Transmitter

• History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • History
  • Stuff
  • Myth

• Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Myth

• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Sports
  • Friendship
  • Dies

• Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.

  

  Jeanne Damas
  • Myth
  • Everywhere
  • Stylish

• We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Firsts
  • Workers
  • Myth

• I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • To Be
  • Private
  • Prefer

• It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

  

  Norman Davies
  • Reality
  • Difference
  • Historian

• I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Myth
  • Fascination
  • Abraham Lincoln

• It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Religion
  • Myth
  • Historian

• Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

  

  Hans Arp
  • Work
  • Poetry
  • Myth

• I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Reason

• With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis and brought together a number of topics often treated separately to inform a comprehensive discussion of the growth, character, and impact of the GED that is truly monumental. This is a first-rate book.

  

  Eric A. Hanushek
  • Character
  • Book
  • Achievement

• The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections - not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.

  

  Alan Lee
  • Art
  • Differences
  • Myth

• Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

  

  Natalie Angier
  • Love
  • Myth
  • Eternal

• Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Myth
  • Expressed

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