Quotes About Myth

I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.

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

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That's not true. Makeup is important.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.