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Quotes About Epic

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
~ George Saintsbury
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
~ Beau Bridges
I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.
~ Ridley Scott
'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.
~ David Benioff
I describe my own music as epic love pop.
~ Saara Aalto
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
~ Michelle Bachelet
He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!
~ Robert Jordan
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
~ Robert Jordan
He let them be heroes.
~ Robert Jordan
It was a thing of legends.
~ Robert Jordan
Warder's blade met black steel from the forges at Thakan'dar with a clang like a great bell, the toll echoing in the hollow, a flash of blue light filling the air like sheet lightning.
~ Robert Jordan
Omong kosong tidak bisa mencukur domba Rand al'Thor
~ Robert Jordan
His huge, ambitious Wheel of Time series helped redefine the genre." —George R. R. Martin, internationally bestselling author of A Game of Thrones
~ Robert Jordan
Leafblighter means to blind the Eye of the World, Lost One. He means to slay the Great Serpent. Warn the People, Lost One. Sightburner comes. Tell them to stand ready for He Who Comes With the Dawn. Tell them. . . .
~ Robert Jordan
Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.
~ Brian W. Aldiss
Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.
~ James Berardinelli
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
~ T.L. Rese
journey from knowing to becoming is the journey of transformation from Ravana to Ram.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Rationalists believe Gandhari had only two sons, Duryodhana and Dusshasana, who are the only two of the hundred to play a significant role in the epic. They were probably twins, the 'two-year' pregnancy probably meaning 'twin' pregnancy.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The gentle wisdom of Ram as he goes into exile is what transforms him from an ordinary hero into a divine being. He does not see himself as the victim. It is significant, however, that when Sita is later banished into the forest, the authors of the epic do not grant her the same gentle wisdom. They prefer visualizing her as victim, not sage. The gender bias continues even in the most modern writings.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more, it was a mistake of epic proportions. His eyes narrowed and he gave a slow shake of his head. "That is all right then. Because I want so much more than just to mess around.
~ Diana Pharaoh Francis
La vida de Manuel Benítez El Cordobés ha sido una de las más grandes epopeyas históricas mundiales
~ Dominique Lapierre
I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative.
~ Stan Lee
My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
~ Jack Kerouac