Quotes About Myth

When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.

Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave, and he'll rise and steal a horse.

When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

But that is another story.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

Uzaludno i pogrešno je tražiti smisao u bezna?ajnim a prividno važnim doga?ajima koji se dešavaju oko nas, nego ga treba tražiti u onim naslagama koja stole?a stvaraju oko nekoliko glavnih legendi ?ove?anstva- legendi o prvom grehu, potopu, Prometeju, Sinu ?ove?ijem

It's typical for some who've been through combat to romanticize it

as historias se cuentan a si mismas, no las cuenta uno

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.

God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours.

God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

It was the myth of the rainy night.

We saw both of these things six times each during the night. We saw them waking, we heard them sleeping, we sensed them dreaming, we were permeated completely with the strange Gray Myth of the West and the weird dark Myth of the East when morning came. All my actions since then have been dictated automatically to my subconscious by this horrible osmotic experience.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

I don't walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella in a room. I have always been superstitious.

To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.

I'm unbelievably superstitious.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.