Pastoral Resources

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.