Quotes About Myth

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.

I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.

I hate the narrative that people have to be tortured in order to be good artists. I think it's a solipsistic view that people use in order to be selfish.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.

I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

We knew we was just fragments of legend and had never really existed in that town. There is no better feeling.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

The Americans have the horrible habit, among other habits, of diluting the wine of their mythical ideas with the water of the American way of life - a way of life, incidentally, which isn't of interest to anyone who has a head on his shoulders. Take Doris Day. There is a vision of America in her films, which is totalitarian and quasi-Soviet! A world without conflict, Abel without Cain.

Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good.

Sometimes legends can be true.

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Once upon a time, Jack wouldn't have been caught dead in a princess rescue.

Once upon a time, is how stories begin...

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can.

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.