Epic Quotes

389 quotes by 290 authors

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. — Walter Benjamin
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. — A. Whitney Brown
Absence - that common cure of love. — Lord Byron
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. — Graydon Carter
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. — Agatha Christie
Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic… — Diablo Cody
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular… — Lascelles Abercrombie
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. — Kevin J. Anderson
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary… — Alain LeRoy Locke
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all… — Edward Forbes
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. — Ernest Hemingway
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy… — A. E. Douglass
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. — C.S. Lewis
Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings. — Wiz Khalifa
I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup. — Gwyneth Paltrow

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290 authors contributed a total of 389 Epic Quotes, led by these top contributors: