Quotes About Epic

I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.

You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?

You're the wildcard Mac. I've thought that since the beginning. This thing thinks you're epic. So do I. -Barrons

Life isn't a bloody comic strip, kid," Ryodan said coolly. "Yes it is," he said, "and we get to write our own script, so be epic or vacate the page. You're all taking this way too seriously.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

In your head, you're the star of an epic movie based on your amazing fucking life. 

Orellana's achievement would later be called one of the world's greatest explorations, "something more than a journey, and more like a miraculous event.

And the great White Whale sped away. And the sea rolled on as it had been rolling for five thousand years . . .

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.

The Odyssey puts us into a world that is a peculiar mixture of the strange and the familiar. The tension between strangeness and familiarity is in fact the poem's central subject.

The Greek word epos means simply "word" or "story" or "song." It is related to a verb meaning "to say" or "to tell," which is used (in a form with a prefix) in the first line of the poem. The narrator commands the Muse, "Tell me": enn-epe. An epic poem is, at its root, simply a tale that is told.

Then Hector, stooping, seiz'd a pond'rous stone 490 That lay before the gates; 'twas broad below, But sharp above; and scarce two lab'ring men, The strongest, from the ground could raise it up, And load upon a wain; as men are now; But he unaided lifted it with ease, 495 So light it seem'd, by grace of Saturn's son. As in one hand a shepherd bears with ease A full-siz'd fleece, and scarcely feels the weight;

For many a Trojan, many a Greek, that day Prone in the dust, and side by side, were laid.

The narrator commands the Muse, "Tell me": enn-epe. An epic poem is, at its root, simply a tale that is told.

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