Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lascelles Abercrombie

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Kris Holden-Ried

I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.

Samuel Richardson

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

Trevor Horn

I am associated with techno epics.

Jon Meacham

An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.

Ashley Madekwe

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

Lascelles Abercrombie

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

Kevin J. Anderson

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

Emilia Clarke

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Ron Silver

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

David Eagleman

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.