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.

William Shatner

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

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!

Peter Travers

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

Richelle Mead

But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

Walter Raleigh

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Jonathan Swift

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Leonardo DiCaprio

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind..

Maggie Stiefvater

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Carolyn Porco

Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Winston Churchill

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Zig Ziglar

Quit counting time and start making time count

Larry Holmes

There is no quit in me.

Louis Sachar

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is always to early to quit.

Sandra Mason

Switch every 30 minutes. I sometimes put a rock or something to show where I am quitting the weeding.

Milton Berle

If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

Gayle Forman

Really? Was that how you quit me?

David Krumholtz

What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season, I got really jaded and I wanted to quit.