Quotes About Myth

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies.

I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.

Just so you know, when they say Once upon a time" . . . they're lying

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.

An old story, but the glory of it is forever.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

The monster in American history is not simply that which destroys. It is a being that must be destroyed. ...There can be no simple border wars in America's conflicts. Every battle is a mythic battle, a struggle against savagery, whether it be a Native American war, the search for a sea monster, or a war on terror.

Isolationism has largely been a myth that really means "the United States will make unilateral decisions rather than forming meaningful alliances.

There is some Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all that he did and thought.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend