Pastoral Resources

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

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

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

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

I am not a myth.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.