#myth

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#cannot #elegant #knowledge #language #literature

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ↗

— Angela Carter

#disposed #man #men #men and women #mythic

Jackie Chan is a myth. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#jackie #jackie chan #myth

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #biological #human #inheritance #interests

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. ↗

— Barbara Steele

#grow #grow up #immersed #italian #light

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#may #mine #myths #other #people

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are. ↗

— William Devane

#feeding #how #myth #politics #presidential

I am not a myth. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#i #i am #myth

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#always #around #barrier #doing #felt