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.

Kelley Armstrong

She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.

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.

Lascelles Abercrombie

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Tricia Helfer

Treating myself is more about just going out and having a great hike, or going on a long motorbike ride.

Willie Garson

String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?

Woodrow Wilson

They lived long that have lived well.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.

William J. Clinton

Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.

William J. Clinton

Some people say well we need a change. Hillary Clinton is been around a long, she sure has, and she's sure been worth every single year she's put into making people's lives better.

Michael Bakwin

I will put (the paintings) on the walls of my house, and in my safe when I leave. I was lax.

Carl Jung

You'll always be safe with me.

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Robert Maxwell

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Wil Wheaton

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Saint Augustine

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

Zach Wamp

In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.