Quotes About Myth

the method is still the same: appeal to weakness, bolster myth, and massage fantasy.

The biggest myth about comedy is that it's magical, unknowable, unteachable. Those who subscribe to that myth believe that the world is divided into two parts: those who are funny, and those who ain't. And if you ain't, well, sorry Charley, that's all she wrote. I have a simple response to that: Bull.

Where do all the things you believed go, when all the supporting structure is found to be a myth? How do you know how or on what to take a moral stand, how do you behave when it turns out there are no cosmic rules, no categorical imperatives?

History and legend conspire to convince us that there are men who rise above the common lot of humankind, who are set apart from the rest of us by birth or achievement or the favor of the gods; but no man, regardless of his pretensions to greatness, is immune from death, and the death of the so-called great is often more squalid and terrifying than the deaths of their most humble subjects.

There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

Any man worth my love lives only in storybooks.

Legends say that Foy banished the cockatrice, but in essence he just hid from her.

Soon, the great earth serpent would awake. Tamara knew that when it did, she would be a goddess. She would ride its power. Laughing.

My city could not help but be conducive to creative thought. Who knows what new myths might spring from the juxtaposition of so many fabulous designs?

Without taking any action himself, he had become more than a legend.

The sea dragons remained a tantalizing myth, and if they had risen from the deep to touch the hearts and minds of two young intiates, they had once again sunk into dreams

It was like a fairytale. She couldn't imagine these creatures of myth physically present in the land.

The events of the last few months have broken down into essential components in my mind: archetype, symbol, myth. I feel that everything is softly falling into focus: soon my eyes will be clear, I shall see the whole picture. Such a pity that, now, it is irrelevent to me.

The stories are true in a way. They do steal people. But not in the way we thought.

I'm not real, I'm just like you. You don't exist in this society. If you did your people wouldn't be seeking equal rights. You're not real, if you were you'd have some status among the nations of the world. So we are both myths. I do not come to you as a reality, I come to you as the myth because that is what black people are: myths. I came from a dream that the black man dreamed long ago. I'm actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors.

if you are not a myth whose reality are you? If you are not a reality whose myth are you?

We hold this myth to be potential Not self-evident but equational Another Dimension Of another kind of Living Life

You remember the fairy tales you were told when you were very small - 'once upon a time...' Why do you think they always began like that?" "Because they weren't true," Simon said promptly. Jane said, caught up in the unreality of the high remote place, "Because perhaps they were true once, but nobody could remember when.

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.

We have to educate our communities about the immigration system and dispel the myths that have been fed to us. Immigration isn't going to go away. A wall isn't going to 'solve' the issue.