Mythologise Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The

C.S. Lewis

#3. In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

Robin Williams

#4. My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Anthony Doerr

#5. The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

William J. Bernstein

#6. It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.

Mary Roach

#7. One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

Penn Jillette

#8. Always there has been an adventure just around the corner
and the world is still full of corners.

Roy Chapman Andrews

#9. Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

Michel De Montaigne

#10. Every nation has its war party ... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

Robert M. La Follette

#11. Nynaeve always fought anything she had not thought of herself.

Robert Jordan

#12. Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.

Greg Iles