Quotes About Myth

It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather than flawed humans muddling along like the rest of us.

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.

I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

My tale starts and ends with Hekla, and I will tell it as it happens, in the manner of the bards.

Incidentally, the idea that we use only 10 percent of our brains is a myth. No one knows where the idea came from, but it has never been true or close to true. You may not use it all terribly sensibly, but you employ all your brain in one way or another.

The one known cure for baldness is castration.

The more or less universal belief that we should all walk ten thousand steps a day—that's about five miles—is not a bad idea, but it has no special basis in science. Clearly, any ambulation is likely to be beneficial, but the notion that there is a universal magic number of steps that will give us health and longevity is a myth. The ten-thousand-step idea is often attributed to a single study done in Japan in the 1960s, though it appears that also may be a myth.

it became fixed in many people's minds that MSG was a kind of toxin. In fact, it isn't.

The conviction that we should all drink eight glasses of water a day is the most enduring of dietary misunderstandings.

One other enduring myth concerning water intake is the belief that caffeinated drinks are diuretics and make you pee out more than you have taken in. They may not be the most wholesome of options for liquid refreshment, but they do make a net contribution to your personal water balance.

It is a myth, and physiological impossibility, incidentally, that hair and nails continue to grow after death. Nothing grows after death.

In 2001, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology declared the G spot a "modern gynecologic myth

The liver was long thought to be the seat of courage, which is why a cowardly person was deemed "lily-livered.

Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead for forty years, he's still making new records. Suck on that , Partnership for a Drug-Free America!

I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story.

If it's today, you'll know it from the news. If it's a hundred thousand tomorrows from now, you'll know it as a legend. If it's later than that, you'll think it mere myth.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.