Demythologise Quotes & Sayings

I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head. — Jill Scott

The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future. — Oscar Arias

Seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll — Chris Bradford

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World.
But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you. — Mother Teresa

Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young. — Glen McDiarmid

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty. — Marie Trintignant

Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes. — Salman Rushdie

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction. — Rusty Schweickart

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be. — Wendell Berry

Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.) — William Goldman

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels. — Charlie Chaplin

Rommel hesitated and finally made his decision. "I believe," he said to Stroelin, "it is my duty to come to the rescue of Germany." At this meeting and at all subsequent ones which Rommel had with the plotters, he opposed assassinating Hitler - not on moral but on practical grounds. To kill the dictator, he argued, would be to make a martyr of him. He insisted that Hitler be arrested by the Army and haled before a German court for crimes against his own people and those of the occupied lands.12 — William L. Shirer

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise L. Hay