Quotes About Epic

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

Yggdrasill—one of only five of its kind—into a war

Later, when the battles are won and the world is theirs, I will tell them about her. I will sing to them of Siri.

but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

The street ran into Oklahoma and Missouri and as far south as Mexico and then back north to Chicago and Detroit and then back south again and at last to Mississippi. It was fifteen years long

Getting Heidi the last-minute appointment had required epic stylist-suckery, but Hollis was a firm believer in the therapeutic power of the right haircut.

I only wish we could stay for his grief - it should be Homeric.

She lifts her eyes, and there is Death in the corner, but not like a king with his iron crown, as the epics claimed. Why, it is a giant brush loaded with white paint. It descends upon her with gentle suddenness, obliterating the shape of the world.

Like many Indian children, I grew up on the vast, varied, and fascinating tales of the Mahabharat.

In only a few hours, the ground turned red as though the skies had rained blood. What would happen by the end of the eighteen days?

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Because this story struck me as extraordinary, and it still does. Once upon a time there was a man in a spacesuit in a secret reconnaissance plane reading The Once and Future King, that great historical epic, that comic, tragic, romantic retelling of the Arthurian legend that tussles with questions of war and aggression, and might, and right, and the matter of what a nation is or might be.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.

In the heady days that followed the success of 'Mahabharat,' I was young, vain and didn't care much about the story. But in the next two decades, I read a lot on the epic.

O era su pertenencia a la UJA la pequeña verdad con que Marco había amasado las mentiras de su primera posguerra —la minúscula poesía épica con que había intentado teñir la prosa general de su vida—, del mismo modo que su estancia en el frente del Segre era la pequeña verdad con que había amasado sus mentiras de la guerra?

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

I've always been drawn to strong women in every genre, people who push the boundaries because they're just epic.

Die Like a Rich Boy' has, for me, some of the strongest lyrical content I've heard in many years; an epic love song laced with dark imagery and acerbic social criticism.

Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.

Katz argues that we are engaging in a kind of theatrical storytelling, inside of our cars, angrily "constructing moral dramas"15 in which we are the wronged victims—and the "avenging hero"—in some traffic epic of larger importance.