Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Dustin Hoffman

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
Joan D. Vinge

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

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Naomi Wolf

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
Robert Johnson

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
Sarah Zettel

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
Smokey Robinson

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.
Camille Paglia

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.
Milla Jovovich

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
Michael Shermer

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
Brad Holland

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

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney

Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
Steven T. Katz

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
Jessica Lange

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Stephen Bayley

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy