There's a legend

And that was the mythology of skill.

This, Alexander, is the legend of the Gordian knot.

They got a legend about this place.

GEORGE ORWELL's memorable fable

I'll tell you a secret. A secret that's not a legend but a fact.

Gladiator Barabbas, you're becoming quite a legend among us, I hear.

What took place in the next six days became the legend of Navarone.

There is a myth, and it truly is a myth we believe and I'm sure a lot of you believe in this room that it is harder to read and write than it is to learn how to speak.

After the race, he tossed his wet, cloud white hair and said, 'You're a god.'

And there's to some extent a big strategy myth that's prevalent in business now.

Today almost as legendary as Florida's Xanadu the world's largest private pleasure ground.

Don't listen to him, it's a legend he got from the priest in town.

There is a legend he can drink two bottles of whisky without getting drunk.

About 20 years later, the myth of Lenin was exposed and his message discarded in the ash heap of history.

After the race, he tossed his wet, cloud white hair and said, 'You're a god.' No, Anderson, you're the god.

There is also this myth that children from the slums cannot integrate with mainstream.

He seems like a pest. I'll bet he thinks he's a Don Juan.

There is also a legend that he killed prisoners by tying them together in pairs and throwing them in the river to save food and ammunition.

The tycoon's lair, the Berchtesgaden of the publishing world, seemed impregnable till I thought of your private elevator.

Never succumb to the gorgon's stare.

Kim Min Chul, once the legend of the drama department and Jung Ji Oh's role model, got addicted to a woman called Yoon Young.

So much for the myth of a federal republic which as was so long insisted upon had nothing to do with the conflict in Bosnia.

Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design . He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set the human body.

Dear Readers What are your thoughts about why UAE employers invest so little in their employees? Or is it just a myth that they don't? writes John Chilton.

However and this is not unlike the myth of Sisyphus at the first signs of economic recovery and the rebirth of civic coexistence, these efforts were in danger of being erased by natural disasters and an extended drought.

For his first studio album release in decades, musical innovator Thomas Dolby has been composing music in the uniquely inspirational setting of a restored life boat. Here he premieres a gorgeous, evocative song from that album about one night with a legend. He's backed by members of the modern string quartet Ethel.

William Stewart Wallace, in his 1932 book, The Story of Laura Secord A Study in Historical Evidence , concluded her story was mostly myth, and that she played no significant role in the outcome of the Battle of Beaver Dams.

Getting stuck in transition usually kills the momentum for democratic change, and widespread corruption, weak state institutions, and lack of security serve to reinforce a myth of the just autocrat. Vladimir Putin s rule in Russia illustrates this outcome.

In the ancient world there was a lot of respect for unintended consequences, and there was a very healthy sense of caution, reflected in the Tree of Knowledge, in Pandora's Box, and especially in the myth of Prometheus that's been so important in recent metaphors about technology.