Myth Telling Quotes

#1. Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

#2. Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Phil Cousineau

#3. Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.

Mary Midgley

#4. Eating disorder sufferers cannot be told to 'pull themselves together', to 'stop doing that' or to 'just eat'.

Lynn Crilly

#5. We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#6. When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.

Darmie Orem

#7. It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

C. G. Jung

#8. When you can't see the reason for something, look for the possible result - and ask yourself who might benefit from it.

John Flanagan

#9. Myth: Garlic repels vampires.
Truth: Try telling that to my dad.

Kimberly Pauley

#10. I believe, AGW is simply a kind of collective hysteria with no basis in science ...

Roger Helmer

#11. He's my usual type of fan ... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

Doug Stanhope

#12. It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

Kathleen Hanna

#13. A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories ... the girl-group is a gigantic narrative full of morality tales locked up like charms in a crystallized sound.

Lucy O'Brien

#14. That standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart

Geri Halliwell

#16. The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

Muriel Spark

#17. All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

Diane Setterfield

#18. It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can.

Patricia Mauceri

#19. The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Martin Shaw

#20. We are free within the confines of the cross to love God and ask what we want.12

Matthew Lee Anderson

#21. I can't imagine Japanese food without dashi, a broth made with kelp and dried bonito flakes. It has the aroma of the sea, tinged with a subtle smokiness, and adds a very important, distinct flavor.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#22. [My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

William J. Clinton

#23. Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Bill Gothard

#24. A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

Jules Cashford