(143 quotes found)
“The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me”
Brigitte Bardot
“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
“I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.”
William S. Burroughs
“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends”
Caryl Rivers
“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
“The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind”
Mary Ritter Beard
“of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.”
Terry Gilliam
“The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.”
Robert D. McFadden
“The average child is an almost non-existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.”
Heywood C. Broun
