Congress acknowledged that society`s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
Stanley Kunitz
The Hero`s Journey is the most basic story form. All stories and myths are, on some level, a Hero`s Journey. It is almost impossible to relay any kind of story without utilizing some pattern from the structure of a Hero`s Journey. One could simply say, "H...
Crispin Glover
The two biggest myths about me are that I`m an intellectual, because I wear these glasses, and that I`m an artist because my films lose money. Those two myths have been prevalent for many years.
Woody Allen
The two biggest myths about me are that I`m an intellectual, because I wear these glasses, and that I`m an artist because my films lose money. Those two myths have been prevalent for many years.
Woody Allen
It seems to me hilarious that our government put the face of Elvis Presley on a postage stamp after he died from an overdose of drugs. His fans don`t mention that because they don`t want to give up their myths. They ignore the fact that he was a drug addi...
Marlon Brando
I invite any sort of myths [about myself] because I like the stooges and doppelgangers and doubles out there. I feel protected behind all these things. Let them blossom! I do not plant them, I do not throw out the seeds. I advise you to read Herzog on Her...
Werner Herzog
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it`s completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I`ve read that I wear a fo...
Stanley Kubrick
Action films are an extension of Greek myths which have been around since Homer`s The Iliad. Everybody`s life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves. With an action film its ...
Dolph Lundgren
There goes another excuse to not exercise that we can`t use anymore ... What`s left? I think all the myths about what`s bad about exercise have now been debunked. There are no more excuses. Exercise is good for our general health, and if we know what`s go...
Atsushi Osa
There are no environmental myths to rebut in this debate, ... The overwhelming opposition to this project is coming from informed citizens and public officials who, with eyes wide open, understand that LNG in Fall River threatens the Taunton River, Mount ...
Jane Austin
There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.
Evel Knievel
One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
Allenstown Capt. Shaun Mulholland
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
Camryn Manheim
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
Angela Carter
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
Mark Rothko