Quotes About Epic

And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

The State tells the epic of people's lives, putting people on the scale, weighing all the wrong things, then acting ponderous about the misinformation.

Speaking about the ultimate reality of life to a very large majority of people is like narrating an epic story in full detail to them and then in the end only getting a basic question from them as who the lead protagonist was there in this whole tale.

Aguirre: The Wrath of God influenced many films including Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Terrence Malick's The New World. This is epic cinema.

I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

In scale, 'Fortitude' is just as big as 'Game of Thrones.' It's equally as epic - it's just starting out.

I loved 'Game Of Thrones.'

'Game of Thrones' couldn't be a movie. There's too much in it. You couldn't do it justice.

I love watching 'Game of Thrones,' 'Rome,' and 'Spartacus' from the period dramas genre.

'Game of Thrones' is amazing.

I do like 'Game of Thrones.' I really like it.

I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.

I love being part of these giant, epic movies. I take great pride in being part of them.

I watch a lot of English films but one of my favourites is 'Gladiator.' It's epic - if it doesn't get you fired up, nothing will.

I love 'Gladiator' and '300.'

Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.

While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A story will interest me, and then somewhere along the way, I discover that hidden inside are these epic themes.

If you avoid any experience—whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy—it is big karma. But if you go through the experience without resisting it, the karma dissolves. This is why Krishna in the great Indian epic the Mahabharata says that hesitation is the worst of all crimes.

The war at Troy seemed to grow in song, poetry, and story all the while. As it faded from living memory, it grew larger and larger. Men claimed descent from one or the other of the heroes, or, failing that, anyone who had fought in the war, which now assumed the stature of a clash between the gods and the titans.

Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress. Myron

The best memory I have about Titanic was that she was so large. So epic. I never felt any swaying or bobbing or turbulence to interfere with my meals, my sensitive appetite, or my slumber. I never felt any sort of vulnerability aboard that ocean liner, right up until the very end. I imagine that's a blessing, don't you? Whoever wants to know how it's all going to end before it actually does? Only poets and madmen, I would think.

But epics are rarely honest, and honesty should never be epic.