“I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.” RealBodyWantedFeltMythGladDataClockBiological Clock Author:Lili Taylor
“Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.” BodyHouseImaginationModernMythTreasureClassicRelevant Book:The death of tragedy Source: The death of tragedy
“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.” IfsHas BeensFactsBodyFormLossCommonPoetOughtCostMusicianToolsStonesFundamentalsMythSuperiorsPainterSymbolsSubstanceSavagesEffectivenessPierce Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.” MenWorldWholeBodyCreationHe ManMetaphorMythNarrativeSandGrainApocalypseImageryFreezeMessiahTotalityExtendingUnifiedLogosRecurringGrains Of SandClusters Author:Northrop Frye
“It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.” BodyStyleShapesSkinsFollowingMythYour BodySuitsToneColourDressingsBody ShapesSkin Tone Author:Susannah Constantine
“The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity, beguiled by the Gabriel of credulity, was induced to support the family. But the soldiers of Reason have crucified the illegitimate impostor, he is dead; and the ignorant disciples and hysterical women who still linger about the cross should take his body down and bury it.” ShouldStillsReasonBodyHumanityChristBornSupportAtheismHolyCrossesDown AndSoldierPositive AtheismMythGhostIgnorantSuperstitionsDiscipleHoly GhostHystericalCredulityGabrielHarlots Author:John Remsburg
“the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.” TryingBodyWindMythFoolishMythologyTelling The TruthTexas Book:Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?