Quotes About Myth

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

The hero is never the star of the story.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Part of the myth is that these model citizens have been given nothing by the government and have made it on their own. The American Dream is that any honest, self-disciplined, hard-working person can do the same.

Just once—and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This

Traditions are not killed by facts.

It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.

Il paradiso terrestre era caduto in discredito proprio quando la sua realizzazione era diventata possibile.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey

The Golden Bough was popular with both scholars and laymen, and it dramatically influenced the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung—Frazer's depiction of tales of myth and romance as echoes of ancient rituals chimed with Jung's description of archetypes that exist within the collective unconscious—as

THE LEGEND OF THE IRISH CASTLE created by

I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.

The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.

The pay gap is a myth, and the pay gap is something that the White House used in 2012 to get Barack Obama elected. It's something obviously that Terry McAuliffe used to get himself elected, and it plays on this idea that women are somehow discriminated against in the workplace and that they're not paid the same amount as men.

There is a myth that Rahman sir only works at night. He works through the day and night, so it depends what time slot you end up working with him. Besides nights, I have sung for him in the morning and at noon, too. I think he's the first composer to work at night, and that's why it's spoken about so much.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

My mom is 60. She has been in the industry for over 30 years and till date, she auditions for movies. It's a myth that star kids don't have to give auditions.

Tim Sylvia is 6-foot-8, 265, and Fedor beat him, so that showed that size doesn't make a big difference.