The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman
The myth is that it saves money. It really doesn't.
John Ferchill
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
Leslie Fiedler
For me, As You Like It is like an ancient tale, it's like the myth of human existence, really. The myth of courtship, of love and of marriage.
Dean Gilmour
It is a myth that when some jobs are gone, people will just move up that [economic] ladder to another job. That is not always the case.
Peter Thomas
The 'white race' thus becomes the chief victim of its own myth.
Harry Edwards
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.
Robert Briffault
All those who are using Venice for their own interests must make a contribution to preserve the myth.
Paolo Costa
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
Gilbert Ryle
... We want to dispel the myth this is the place to go if you can't get help.
Sally Tesluk
We think that's a myth.
Peter Kirk
The separation of church and state was a myth.
William Buckingham
The one line that connects it all is the theme of myth and resurrection.
Daniel Valdez
We're trying to debunk the myth that Orlando is just a teen heartthrob.
Jane Green
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes
Control is a myth. Never give up your choice. Never buy into the myth of control. Never.
Roger Wyer
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Irwin Edman
This is such an incredible story to begin with, with so much drama and human truth to it. Jason and I saw a lot of our own experiences in it and a lot of human experience, as with any myth.
Matthew Peterson
The big myth is that we want to make the best computer-animated movie in the world. And it's like, no. We want to make the best movie we can make.
Andrew Stanton
It's a myth for our times, ... You read about Fudge and the Ministry of Magic - that's Tony Blair! And Guantanamo is not that different from Azkaban. There are Dementors there, too.
Alfonso Cuaron
We just have to bust the myth that we need to be using more energy.
Rob Sargent
It's a misconception that men are the only ones who can do business on the golf course. We want to debunk the myth; we want women to be comfortable and feel welcome and know they can use golf as a business tool.
Kathy Lobato
There's a myth that debt is dangerous.
Adriane Berg
The 'Cheers' character Lilith is not based on the Jewish myth.
Bebe Neuwirth
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Irwin Edman
We tried to have a secure device, and that was a myth and a mistake.
Sir Howard Stringer
I perceived that the gangster movie had replaced the Western as the quintessential American movie myth.
John Mccarty
It's to get the education out there to dispel the myth that everybody is doing it. (Middle school-aged children) have the misconception that everybody in middle school drinks. It is not the social norm. That is what we're trying to get across to them.
Dianna Walston
There's a myth that mountains protect you.
Steve Nelson
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Roddy Doyle
We think we've done a lot of damage to that myth.
Adam Goldstein
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson
A Short History of Myth.
Karen Armstrong
That's a myth. No mosquito is going to bite a decaying body. Decaying bodies don't defecate.
Robert Edelman
The dangerous myth that nuclear energy is a clean alternative.
Brian Lowery
It's a myth that the movie business was booming during the Depression. For one thing, there wasn't as much repeat business back then. A movie came out, played theaters for a while and then that was it.
Peter Rainer
His strength was really a myth.
Warren Smith
One of our competitors has created this myth that DC power is more efficient. In fact, the opposite is true.
Andy Bechtolsheim
The struggle against demagoguery scarcely fits the St George-against-the-dragon myth Our democratic St George goes out rather reluctantly with armor awry.
Norman Thomas
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Stephen Bayley
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Robert Heller
There's this myth of the land being all wetlands. Everyone thinks it's going to be knee-deep in water.
Bayard Dominick
I think the festival does a good job of making Shakespeare accessible and helping to dispel this myth that Shakespeare is high-brow and difficult.
Rod Woehler
This myth has been popping up for a long time. I think a lot of people have the experience of dropping something on the floor and (then) someone will eat it.
Eric Haven
These discoveries are exploding the myth of a monolithic religion.
Elaine Pagels
I think it's a movie about us, ... I think it's a movie about this country and it's a movie about the Constitution. I think there is a very comfortable and familiar myth in this country and not necessarily a false one, but an important one about a set of freedoms that we have in this country. I think the fact is this country has never really been tested.
Ed Zwick
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