Myths Facts Quotes

#1. I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.

Paul Bettany

#2. Every fact is a myth until proven to be otherwise.

Sapan Saxena

#3. I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

Deborah Bull

#4. Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

Joseph Campbell

#5. Like all true stories, it was a mix of legends and facts, of myths imagined and deeds done, of the heart of darkness and the crown of light, of experiences borne and gaps filled, of things seen and visions that could only be authenticated by the mind's eye.

Ken Liu

#6. What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

Timothy Garton Ash

#8. Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

Flavor Flav

#9. [During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

Barbara Mikulski

#10. It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are ...

Edith Hamilton

#11. My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

William Least Heat-Moon

#13. Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts
but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

Joseph Campbell

#14. A fantasy story is a vacation to another world for the price of a sandwich.

A.E. Marling

#15. Open, fact-based sex education is among the biggest threats to religion. Knowing the facts about sex reveals the myths that religions preach.

Darrel Ray

#16. The Moretti women had a smile like they were going to eat you ... and you'd like it.

Craig Johnson

#17. Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.

Dave Champion

#18. If, as is being demonstrated today so clearly, the patriarchal system has been based on unfounded myths rather than on biological facts, what accounts for the universality and stability of this system?

Yuval Noah Harari

#19. Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

William Davenant

#20. History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Daikichi Irokawa

#21. Love, I want you everywhere I go. I'd put you in my pocket, if I could.

R.K. Lilley

#22. Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

Joseph Campbell

#23. How about how the hell you're still a virgin at nineteen?" he said, turning his silver pools toward me.

Abbi Glines

#24. Identifying an issue is halfway to resolving it.

Allan Dare Pearce

#25. My subject is History of Magic," he said in his dry, wheezy voice. "I deal with facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends." He

J.K. Rowling

#26. Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

Hilary Mantel

#27. Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#28. Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

Ellen Kushner

#29. The world from it self is a brutal one.

Deyth Banger