Myth

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

- Leon Trotsky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

- Audre Lorde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A myth is a story told in a historical context. You think of that name, Al Davis, and you think of an old, rich, white guy who owns the Raiders.

- Al Davis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We know now that nothing could have been farther from the truth. That stuff about full-face helmets was a myth. Now, since Dale died, we have more facts than myths.

- Bill Elliott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Dustin Hoffman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A Short History of Myth.

- Karen Armstrong Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is nothing truer than myth history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be it is simply what it is.

- Eugene Ionesco Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

- James Ellroy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth it is tangible and forceful.

- Michael Bergin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It seemed to me that so much of America's myth, stories, visions and iconographic images are in many ways parallel to the Ring.

- Francesca Zambello Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't want to call that a myth, but I think we are starting to knock down some of those barriers that students used to say, 'Knoxville is not a friendly place to be,'

- Richard Bayer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

- Paul Ricoeur Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

- Bob Kane Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

- William Devane Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

- Albert Camus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You have this 18-year old who is trying to figure out his life. But you also have these 40-year-olds who are trying to figure out their lives, and this whole myth of, 'Once I have a family, a house, a husband, this hole I felt will be filled up and I'll be OK,' ... At 40 they're, 'Wait a minute, it's not all OK, I still have all those problems. What do I do now' And I'm really happy to have both of those problems and both of those ages in the same story.

- Mike Mills Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

- Jerry Rubin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Alan Wilson Watts Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

- Mary C. Carpenter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

- John Bacon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'd like to dispel a myth that the Fair Board is awash in money ... Whatever the city takes away is going to hurt.

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It's a simple story, yet with all the complexities of myth. The technology was so understated. I thought he (George Lucas) was an amazing director who had created this totally believable world.

- Liam Neeson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes