Epic Quotes · Page 25

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

— Laurie Anderson

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close…

— Michael Palin

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

— Howard G. Hendricks

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory,…

— Samuel Richardson

“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

I think that you're very aware that you're shooting a 3D film for a movie that's beloved to the fan community, and…

— Christine Bieselin Clark

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen -…

— Tomi Adeyemi

With most electronic music I hear now, the things I like will be the things that have soul. It has to have…

— Naomi Klein

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

— Ridley Scott

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with…

— Anatole Broyard

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't think that people think of Marvel in the same way that people think of Pixar. Because Pixar is story-orientated, and…

— Amy Pascal

“Thou art mine, Dilys Merimydion. Mine and no other’s.”

— C.L. Wilson

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

— Donald Miller

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

— Eli Roth

Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the…

— N.D. Wilson

I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,…

— Vera Nazarian

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

— Howard G. Hendricks

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when…

— Georgette Heyer

“The wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.”

— George R. R. Martin

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

— Howard G. Hendricks

I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling…

— Jennifer Egan

“Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory.”

— Barnaby Allen

It's Axelle's [ Carolyn] concept and she's the one who got the ball rolling. She told a few of us about it,…

— Mike Mendez

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or…

— Baz Luhrmann