Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Not only do we have the handsomest voice cast out there, along with the very lovely Black Widow, we also have an… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses… We agonize… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland]… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me… But others more experienced also did not know of… — Christopher Cokinos Copy Share Image
It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song…… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I was listening to this Ngozi Family record, 45,000 Volts, and it's mostly this guy singing, and then for the choruses, he's… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can… — Ajay Naidu Copy Share Image
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I don’t feel that I’m making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch it on an iPhone, I’m not going to… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Once a choker, always a choker. It never ever changes. That was one of the epic meltdowns. He didn't know where he… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
![“The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to…” quote by Upton Sinclair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/upton-sinclair-4341_american-people_the-american-people-will-take-socialism_572530.png)
![“To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes…” quote by Steve Aoki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/525/steve-aoki-12546_america_to-come-out-here-and-play-on-woodstock-g_998652.jpg)
![“[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/milan-kundera-120_beauty_kafka-transformed-the-profoundly-antipoe_2458536.jpg)
![“Once a choker, always a choker. It never ever changes. That was one of the epic meltdowns. He didn't know where he was. I thought he was going - I thought he was going to die. Good going, Chris [Christie].” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ced/donald-trump-18_chokers_once-a-choker-always-a-choker-it-never-e_2811687.jpg)
