Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Cary Fukunaga

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it...

Edward M. Lerner

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

This is actually a very sprawling, epic movie.

Joel Edgerton

'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.

The thing that I'm seeing - it looks like the game is going to be an epic battle. We're seeing the same thing on eBay.

John Boyega

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

Kenneth Branagh

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.

Kate Reardon

The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.

Al Gore

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

Dean Koontz

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 outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

Terry Hayes

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.

Kevin McKidd

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

Annalee Newitz

Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

We don't think that its necessary to take a prescriptive approach, which is what EPIC is suggesting for security.

Robin Hobb

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'

Donald Trump

Once a choker, always a choker. It never ever changes. That was one of the epic meltdowns. He didn`t know where he was. I thought he was going - I thought he was going to die. Good going, Chris [Christie].

Ally Carter

It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.

E. O. Wilson

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

Don DeLillo

It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

Donald Miller

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Alastair Cook

You just Sanisa in the death overs. He is simply the best in the world.

Andy Stanley

What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?

Anatole Broyard

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Anne Carson

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

Sunil Gavaskar

When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.

Tom Brokaw

The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

Sourav Ganguly

As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times

Raymond Queneau

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

Vijay Mallya

We tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so.

Steve Aoki

To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic.

Steven Curtis Chapman

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it...

Richard Hammond

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.