Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Sykes

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Tina Brown

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husbands,

Adam Savage

Failure is always an option.

Cassandra Clare

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Cornelia Funke

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

Frank Herbert

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

Jane Green

We're trying to debunk the myth that Orlando is just a teen heartthrob,

It debunks the myth of the tech-savvy boy,

Paul Di Filippo

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

James Thurber

The unicorn is a mythical beast,

Hermann Hesse

In the beginning was the myth.

Terry Gilliam

of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.

Barbra Streisand

Normally, I would not dignify vicious, mean-spirited mythology masquerading as biography.

Cassandra Clare

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is a myth.

Jean Houston

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

Fernando Pessoa

Myth is the nothing that is all.

We tried to have a secure device, and that was a myth and a mistake.

There's two principal myths about shamrock: that it's unique to Ireland, and that it never flowers.

Joe Mantello

There's this mythology about Nathan and Matthew, though they've just done one play together.

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

Gilbert Ryle

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

Hugh Hefner

We're separated by our myths.

Orlando Bloom

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

Madeleine L'Engle

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

Joseph Campbell

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

Peter Thiel

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Conscience is better served by a myth.

Mary Roach

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.