I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
Robert Fulghum
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the mythJacques Ellul
What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.
Gerald McKnight
No matter what a woman`s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society
Naomi Wolf
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
D.H. Lawrence
I don`t think that people accept the fact that life doesn`t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
David Lynch
The primary myth part came out of a revelation of the value of Shakespeare. Those are dramas that play to the simple person and the complicated person.
Baz Luhrmann
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we`ve stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.
Emma Thompson
On his villainous role in Leather Jackets (1992): "I`ll tell you something right now. There`s a myth about actors saying, `Oh no, that`s not me on screen at all. I`m just acting.` OK, if I were to say to you that`s not me, that`s fine. And I would tell yo...
Cary Elwes
Somebody said to me, [The Beatles] were anti-materialistic.` That`s a huge myth. [John Lennon] and I literally used to sit down and say, `Now, let`s write a swimming pool.`
Paul McCartney
God is, to me, pretty much an idea. God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we`re all responsible for our own actions.
Seth Green
You have this 18-year old who is trying to figure out his life. But you also have these 40-year-olds who are trying to figure out their lives, and this whole myth of, `Once I have a family, a house, a husband, this hole I felt will be filled up and I`ll b...
Mike Mills
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
Lars von Trier
Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.
Alfred Hamilton Barr
We`re trying to debunk the myth that Orlando is just a teen heartthrob, ... We see this as the perfect blend of two of the biggest talents in the industry right now.
Jane Green
We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
Alex Nogales
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
Alfred Rosenberg
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Alexander Downer
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Alexander Downer
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
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz`s influence was suppressed.
Robert Trout