When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final. — Sunil Gavaskar Copy Share Image
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“ 'Door,' called Richard. 'Don't do it. Don't set it free. We don't matter.' 'Actually,' said the marquis, 'I matter very much.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Whoa, don't assume, dude," Marco said. "My mom always said, when you assume you make an ass of u and me --” — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea… — Jane Horrocks Copy Share Image
Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
“The Greatest epic is your own life’s story. From the moment you set your foot outside your mother’s womb, an epic is… — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings. — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
It seems like on every record we have this big, epic thing like 'Rosetta,' 'Wings For Marie' or 'Lateralus.' — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear. — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
I'm a tragedienne in some way. I think quite epically. I like epic landscapes and grand emotions. — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
Winning the Absa Cape Epic was the base for the perfect season. It really spiced up the soup. — Nino Schurter Copy Share Image
Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Vasquez faced off Vince. “We’ll meet in hell for sure.” Vince didn’t blink. “I have a condo there waiting for me. You’re… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.” — Karen Azinger Copy Share Image
Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and… — James Moore Copy Share Image
ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters. — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image