Quotes About Epic

I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There's no better epic. Also, being part Latin and Jewish means I have a sense of the theatrical. There were always a lot of people in my house. My home was always filled with a lot of storytellers.

April in Québec was a climatological shitstorm. A mindfuck of epic proportions.

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.

My films are larger than life.

Meeting Malorie Blackman was epic and really cool and she's so lovely.

It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.

It is the neon epic of Saturday night.

Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom.

I found myself wanting even better stories. And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story. You'll get a taste for one story and then want another, and then another, and the stories will build until you're living a kind of epic of risk and reward, and the whole thing will be molding you into the actual character whose roles you've been playing.

Quienes se dan cuenta de que la historia épica de la vida, en realidad, no trata de ellos mismos sino de quienes les rodean, acaban ganando.

The philosophical problem in a story is about something even larger than the story itself. It's about the question why. Why does this story matter in the overall epic of humanity?

And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story. You'll get a taste for one story and then want another, and then another, and the stories will build until you're living a kind of epic of risk and reward, and the whole thing will be molding you into the actual character whose roles you've been playing.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. The more practice stories I lived, the more I wanted an epic to climb inside of and see through till its end.

Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale

Bloodshed is a terrible thing, but the bloodiest parts of Homer and Aeschylus are often the most magnificent - for example, that glorious speech of Klytemnestra's in the Agamemnon that I love so much.

Lord of the Rings!

this beast epic is throughout a keen satire not only upon medieval society, but upon human nature in all ages.

what was his best part?' 'his lover patroclus

Some had a whole epic, others just a verse

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

One set depicted the History of Aeneas, another the Judgment of Paris

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Madeline Miller