Myth Quotes

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
Sarah Zettel

Science, Technology, Fantasy

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
J. G. Ballard

Time, Thinking, View

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly

Science, Today, Artist

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco

Easy, Read, Publishers

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
Kevin Mitnick

Care, Reality, Kevin

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Jack White

Art, Mind, Fill

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
Henry A. Wallace

Efficiency, Fascist, Deluded

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
James Dyson

Great, Moment, Next

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
James Hillman

Parents, Soul, Place

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
Lester Bangs

Country, Whole, Seems

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
Barry Commoner

Technology, Human, Social

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
Jerry Falwell

Time, Problems, Conscience

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
Tom Hanks

Men, Human, Black

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
Thomas Mann

Life, Foundation, Traits

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, True, Rather

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
Al Goldstein

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
Kevin Mitnick

Government, Break, Complete

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke

State, Actually, Believing

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
Gabrielle Union

Cancer, Five, Skin

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Science, Technology, Modern

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Boris Pasternak

Men, Power, Truth

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.
Shel Silverstein

Great, Writers, Tv

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove

Often, Seen, Existence

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
Carre Otis

Try, Forever, Paid

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Robert Heller

Success, Second, Management

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
Warren Farrell

Women, Power, Legal

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.
Jo Nesbo

Lost, Grown, Norway

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
Joan D. Vinge

Through, Perfect, Here

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert

Religion, Future, Often

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.
Anna Kendrick

Saying, Heels, Jeans

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