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Quotes About Epic

If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel a little bit like the Joker for a little while. And I mean that in the best way possible.
~ Tom King
Or, you know, you could interview the perfectly willing Epic walking beside you." I coughed into my hand. "Well, um, this scheme may have started because I was thinking about how to rescue you from your powers. I figured if I knew how long it took, and what was required to hold an Epic … You know. It might help you." "Aw," she said. "That has to be the sweetest way someone has ever told me they were planning to kidnap and imprison me.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson
~ I am a fish.
You should try using one of Brandon Sanderson's fantasy novels. They're big enough, and goodness knows that's really the only useful thing to do with them.
~ Brandon Sanderson
My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics. Permanently.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.
~ Henry James
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
~ Herman Melville
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
~ Herman Melville
Mike and I were really interested in other epic 'Legends & Lore' properties, like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' but we knew that we wanted to take a different approach to that type of genre. Our love for Japanese Anime, Hong Kong action & Kung Fu cinema, yoga, and Eastern philosophies led us to the initial inspiration for 'Avatar.'
~ Bryan Konietzko
To me, the fact that the Mexican came North in search of a better life is a tremendous epic that hasn't been written. It's an odyssey that we know nothing about. And they came with a dream for a better life.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
~ Joe Dante
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.
~ Cristina Saralegui
I bought a brand-new Mercedes 190E and got a body kit put on in a garage in Swindon. That was a car I absolutely loved, it looked epic with the low skirts and everything.
~ Chris Kamara
'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
~ Jim Rash
Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.
~ Milan Kundera
The gigantic invisible broom that transforms, disfigures, erases landscapes has been at the job for millennia now, but its movements, which used to be slow, just barely perceptible, have sped up so much that I wonder: Would an Odyssey even be conceivable today? Is the epic of the return still pertinent to our time?
~ Milan Kundera
Los mujeriegos épicos, se alejan cada vez más, en su búsqueda del conocimiento, de la belleza femenina convencional, de la que se han hartado rápidamente, y terminan indefectiblemente como coleccionistas de curiosidades
~ Milan Kundera
I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.
~ Nina Arianda
Thats all I need. To find a soul mate to share my life with. To have a love so epic it will never die.
~ Susane Colasanti
I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.
~ Dennis Lehane
'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.
~ Peter Jackson
I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
~ Ken Liu
'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.
~ Ken Liu
'Avengers' was a great comic-book movie. 'The Dark Knight Rises' is a great epic.
~ Neal Adams