Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laird Barron

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

Annalee Newitz

If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.

Shawn Levy

I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.

In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World

Jack Kerouac

My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

Enrico Fermi

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Every time I have a bikini wax, Cameron Diaz holds me down.

This is actually a very sprawling, epic movie.

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

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.

Henry R. Luce

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

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.

Mike Hoffman

We saw some resistance in the Wichita market until we partnered with EPIC. The increased awareness and information handed out regarding ethanol-enriched fuel made a huge difference in the public's perception.

Philip Roth

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Philip Roth

Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Don Cheadle

All of their experiences were the stuff of epic films things they had to go through in those 100 days. It was amazing.

James Fenton

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

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.

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.

Rahul Dravid

He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.

Peter Travers

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

Joseph Kosinski

The idea itself, the notion of what the next Tron could be, is exciting enough that it would be worth going back to do it. Obviously we hinted some things at the end of Legacy, it's kind of there for people to see what that potential is. So we just want to make sure that we have a script that delivers on that promise on an epic scale."

Kevin J. Anderson

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

James Cook

Everybody lives an epic.

Laini Taylor

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

Emilia Clarke

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

Lascelles Abercrombie

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

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.