Quotes tagged ‘Myth’

“Throughout ancient mythology, the stars and constellations were viewed as sources of power and prophecy. From the prophets of ancient Greece to the astrologers of Babylon, civilizations have long believed that the zodiac holds the key to hidden potential and sources of power.”

— Samantha Newman, Collective World, collective.world

“Peter Knox: If this book is what I think it is, it contains the witches' first spells. It could tell us how we created vampires. Diana Bishop: That's just a myth. Peter Knox: Vampires have used their brute power and longevity to gain far too much control, but if we created them then we could uncreat…”

— Alice Troughton, Sarah Dollard, Ashley Pharoah, Juan Carlos Medina, Kate Brooke, Sarah Walker, Charlene James, Peter Knox, Owen Teale, imdb.com

“Shadow: What are you looking at up there? Zorya: I was looking at that. See? Shadow: The big dipper? Zorya: Odin's Wain, they call it. And the Great Bear. It is a thing. It's not a god. Like a god. It's a bad thing. Chained up in those stars. If it escapes, it will eat the whole of everything. So we…”

— Maria Melnik, Shadow Moon, Ricky Whittle, imdb.com

“A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history.”

— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Jack Rackham, Toby Schmitz, imdb.com

“I have never yet met a successful person that hasn’t had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. Overnight success is much more of a myth than reality.”

— Harvey Mackay, harveymackay.com

“Many ‘myths’ are based on truth.”

— Arthur Heinemann, D. C. Fontana, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com

“Maybe generations from now, they’ll tell stories about you, like they do Jesse James or Billy the Kid. The myth is so fucking romantic.”

— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

“The ancient Greek term mythos, which yields our English 'myth,' at its root means anything delivered by word of mouth and thus from the start was radically acoustic.”

— Walter Ong, amazon.com

“I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him.”

— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com

“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe"…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe"…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“The myth of heaven indicates peace and night. The myth of heaven indicates the soul”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

“We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.”

— Angelina Jolie, dailymail.co.uk

“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe"…”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com