Epic Quotes

389 quotes by 279 authors

I can resist everything except temptation. — Oscar Wilde
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. — Steven Wright
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone… — Joss Whedon
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you… — Hunter S. Thompson
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. — George W. Bush
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like… — Hunter S. Thompson
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on… — Roald Dahl
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. — Henry James
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an… — William Faulkner
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. — Hunter S. Thompson
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the… — Dean Koontz
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me — Hunter S. Thompson
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… — Carlos Fuentes
Good people drink good beer. — Hunter S. Thompson
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope. — Cassandra Clare
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naÃ¯ve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet… — Christopher Isherwood
[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… — Milan Kundera
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of clichÃ© and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly… — Marisha Pessl

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