Quotes About Myth

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

History a distillation of rumor

I always telling people to "not try this at home," because most of what we do on MythBusters is really dangerous. Consequently, we can't encourage people to try that stuff.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn't perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that's not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Tooth Fairy" Growing up in the Northwest was tough. For years I thought the Tooth Fairy was a big boat with cars and sharp teeth.

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.

Being dead is highly overrated. It's no fun at all." -- Mythe: A Fairy Tale

Sharks to not eat Chinese people because they get hungry thirty minutes later".

I thought Candy Mountain was a real place

The moment there is imagination there is myth

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.