Quotes About Myth

I found out that the idea of the Internet as a highly distributed, redundant global communications system is a myth,'' he discovered. "Virtually all communications between countries take place through a very small number of bottlenecks, and the available bandwidth simply isn't that great.

In most of the world, Magellan is thought of as the first guy who went around the world. Here, everyone knows he only made it as far as Mactan Island, where he was killed by Filipinos.

Pronounces the name of everything created?' In many Creation myths, to name a thing is to create it. He is referred to, in various myths, as 'expert who instituted incantations,' 'word-rich,' 'Enki, master of all the right commands,' as Kramer and Maier have it, 'His word can bring order where there had been only chaos and introduce disorder where there had been harmony.

We change the script a little," Madame Ping said, "to allow for cultural differences. But the story never changes. There are many people and many tribes, but only so many stories.

So Enki was responsible, according to this myth, for irrigating the fields with his 'water of the heart.'

I've posed this question myself. If the myth of the creator refers to the first single-celled, asexual being, how do we get to SEX?

How can you be a Christian without believing in that?" "I would say," Juanita says, "how can you be a Christian with it? Anyone who takes the trouble to study the gospels can see that the bodily resurrection is a myth that was tacked onto the real story several years after the real histories were written. It's so National Enquirer-esque, don't you think?

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Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.

The Boxers believed that after one hundred days of training in martial arts they would be impervious to bullets. After three hundred days they would be able to fly.

So even if there was a mutation in Loch Ness I still don't think you're going to see a 30ft eel.

I am not a myth.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

I, along with everybody else, had bought into the myth of Donald being a self-made man and being a brilliant developer. I had no idea that none of that was true because everybody acted like it was true.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Myth is sometimes more important than history.