“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“She stared at her console, wanting to punch it. Her dream, running to save her life, to save everything, was all going… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love… — Kris Holden-Ried Copy Share Image
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“He pulled her close and kissed her thoroughly. When they pulled apart, they were both breathless, their hearts pounding. “Was that my… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
With most electronic music I hear now, the things I like will be the things that have soul. It has to have… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God… — Derwin L. Gray Copy Share Image
There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to… — Judith Faulkner Copy Share Image
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
“Oh, Jatel, I am so used. Would you rid yourself of me?" the knight started to cry. Jatel slowly kissed the woman… — Donald Allen Kirch Copy Share Image
I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct,… — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
“I am five, I will never understand why we are stranded in our selves but in this moment I know my own… — Sharon Doubiago Copy Share Image
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter,… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say,… — Bronagh Gallagher Copy Share Image
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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