#myth

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth? ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#craft #describing #had #hundred #incident

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#anything #conquer #cowboy #like #live

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#did #everything #family #gets #gods

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#father #forty #fourth #gangs #had

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#irrelevant #meaning #morality #motivation #myths

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#because #live #myths #our #preoccupation

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#cartoonists #great #myth #people #tv

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#back #become #came #going #horizon

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#prevent #progression #time #waste #waste of time