Quotes About Myth

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

As time goes on, thing do get made up.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

One such family, the Stewarts, went as far as building a mansion opposite that of Mrs Astor so that she could not avoid seeing them. What perhaps they did not realise was that she so guarded the exclusiveness on which her myth was founded that she would not even go near her own windows lest the crowds that thronged Fifth Avenue hoping to catch a glimpse of the rich and famous should see her.

Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress. Myron

When is a legend legend? Why is a myth a myth? How old and discussed must a fact be for it to be relegated to the category Fairy-tale? And why do certain facts remain incontrovertible while others lose their validity to assume a shabby, unstable character?

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself some sublime truth that restores without myth or language.

I can walk through a myth and out of it!

Can't always be the living legend."-Louis

It seems that there are minds who would weave it all together, every myth, or its essence, to make a glorious tapestry.

But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history—is lies.

Only the lightning was fearless of the legends that said some evil dwelt in Sugar Devil Island: go there and you might never come back.

If I failed tonight, I would be another legend.

It was an old tale. It was too old.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

I read that the real Cleopatra wasn't even that great-looking. She seduced everyone with how clever she was." "Yeah, right. And you've seen a picture of her?" "They didn't have cameras back then, Squint." "Duh. So how do you know she was ugly?" "Because that's what historians wrote at the time.