And Epic Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.

Marlon Wayans

#3. A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.

Antony Beevor

#4. Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.

Spike Jonze

#5. The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character

Roland Barthes

#6. I love you back - in a big and epic way.

Autumn Doughton

#7. The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism ... In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

George Elliott Clarke

#8. While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.

James L. Cambias

#9. Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.

Simon Schama

#10. If we think of the novel and the epic ... The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero
a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

Nic Fields

#12. It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

Baltasar Kormakur

#13. If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

John DeChancie

#14. I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

Howard Shore

#15. I'm sorry ma'am, I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I'd spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now ... jean shorts?

Richelle Mead

#16. 'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

Peter Jackson

#17. Zach had been on the receiving end of a few of Lanning's ass-chewings back in the day. They were epic sagas of righteous fury and perfectly applied touches of profanity. It was like being verbally disemboweled.

Christopher Farnsworth

#18. But she would make it, because maybe he wasn't much of a warrior but if there was one thing that he was cut out for it was an epic and retarded act of love.

Brian McGreevy

#19. My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.

Russell T. Davies

#20. We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

T.L. Rese

#21. Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice ... and justice is the spirit of God.

J.C. Marino

#22. How infuriating it is to be continually born to war that continues one's whole lifetime, even as one protests it - what futility. It is perhaps a more public epic in this regard, and carries a ritual vocalization.

Anne Waldman

#23. The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Victor Hugo

#24. It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more.

Brian Staveley

#25. Good, evil - it all becomes blurred. You go far enough and everything turns to grey. And the power Isaac, you don't understand. The power I have now - I can't let it go. It's in my blood, it's right there in my soul. I can't let it go.

Matthew Head

#26. Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. He was acutely aware of her chest rising and falling as she tortured him with silence for several seconds before finally opening her baby blues and saying, "That Was Epic." Then she broke into a fit of laughter.

Robin Bielman

#28. Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.

Stephen King

#29. Biblically speaking, to hear and not to do is not to hear at all.

Howard G. Hendricks

#30. It's a cliche to say this now, but to me, 'The Sopranos' is like Dickens. It's able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.

Stephen Merchant

#31. It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

Ajay Naidu

#32. Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in epic movie.

Shon Mehta

#33. Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem,
Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield:
The worth of all men by their end esteem,
And then praise, or due reproach them yield.

Edmund Spenser

#34. It is in times of superlative hardship that individuals live their epic adventures, stories that thrill, fascinate, inspire, and illuminate.

Laura Hillenbrand

#35. I'm asking you to love me and let me... die.

Sara Raasch

#36. I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas, which is the beautiful story of the miners (trapped underground for 69 days in 2010). And then, this incredible, epic story came my way.

Cote De Pablo

#37. With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

Adam Green

#38. In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men (and women) of flesh and blood.

Richard M. Nixon

#39. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands out in my mind as the most significant innovative novel since Ulysses and The Waves. Marguerite Young has added epic grandeur to the philosophical novel. Every page gleams with the poetry of existence.

Nona Balakian

#40. Life is the result of war, and society is the instrument of war... To refuse war means to refuse an epic life

James Palmer

#41. When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.

S.M. White

#42. I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

Isabel Allende

#43. We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.

Matt Chandler

#44. I'd always hated any kind of peanut butter candy. Peanut butter, in my opinion, belonged in sandwiches and nowhere else.

Morgan Matson

#45. James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic."
"Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to be let go is if we go to other alien planets and steal from them. You're right, James, I'm clearly overly overreacting," Kat snapped.

L. Taylor

#46. I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was tending toward ominous.

Amanda Bouchet

#47. Don't cry my son
Don't cry, because life is a redeemed fight
Life is a fight that will demean the weak person
And will always exalt the strong ones

Goncalves Dias

#48. And for the first time, Gus's tattoo makes sense. Because this ... everything I see ... everything I hear ... everything I feel ... it's epic. Gus. Rook. They do epic.

Kim Holden

#49. He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.

Rahul Dravid

#50. He can't ground her if he's already killed her," I pointed out when Juliana quoted this to me. "Well, he can, but it wouldn't have the same impact.

Claire LaZebnik

#51. I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before.

Rupert Sanders

#52. He could write an epic poem about her ass. And all the ways he wanted to defile it.

R.G. Alexander

#53. I guess the most epic romances are still tucked away within the pages of her favorite novels, safely swathed in inked lies and faded paper promises. Forever fictional. Just like love.

S.L. Jennings

#54. Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.

Michael Joseph Murano

#55. Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#56. What the fuck? You're MIA, Shiori is gone, and that's a clusterfuck of epic proportions. If I find out that you hurt her in any way, so help me god I will . . . No, Jesus, Amery! Let go. Give me back my goddamn phone.

Lorelei James

#57. There's even one for your titties. I haven't done the boobs mask one yet-you just stick it on your tits, apparently. I have to try it. But I did the foot one and the hand one yesterday, and it makes my skin crazy. It's like I just had sex for four days.

Courtney Love

#58. I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.

Greg Iles

#59. I came here as a son seeking his father's approval, hoping you could recognize what she and I have. But, it appears you're business as usual.

Nicole Gulla

#60. Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.

Jeff Goodell

#61. Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

Howard G. Hendricks

#62. My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!

Marie Lu

#63. When I think of the play of force and matter, and all the tremendous struggle of it, I feel as if I could write an epic on the grass.

Jack London

#64. My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.

Warren Spector

#65. I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.

G.K. Chesterton

#66. An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure.

Jon Meacham

#67. Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Donald Miller

#68. I can't hold back from wanting you right now, Ava."
"Don't!" I commanded.

Nicole Gulla

#69. For Honor and the Octagon!

Karen Azinger

#70. Hey," he said smiling at me pulling off his sunglasses. "Did you get me something good?"
"I think so," I said trying to ignore how hard my heart was beating. Then before I could think about it or analyze or consider what I was doing I leaned over and kissed him.

Morgan Matson

#71. In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

William Shenstone

#72. No matter our dire circumstances, no matter our shared upbringing, no matter the chill his smile sends over my body, he's still him, and I'm still me, and yes, he needs to have a female heir someday, but with a proper lady, a duchess or a princess - not the girl who spars with him.

Sara Raasch

#73. I want the Reader of Words to scan it before I send." She bent down and pressed a kiss to his neck. "Our story's pretty epic.

Kresley Cole

#74. Ain't no way I'm letting her out of this now. Not after that confession. It was as epic as the fucking storm and ten times as unexpected.

C.M. Stunich

#75. [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Richard Armour

#76. I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.

Samantha Newark

#77. Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it.

Dane Cook

#78. When Chinese people want liberal reforms, they are delivered. When they want more Communism and an epic fight against corruption, like now, China's government immediately reacts. It is powerful and democratic, although a very specific and complex arrangement.

Andre Vltchek

#79. Lassiter had been the wild card, and he had not lasted. Distracted by physical yearnings, he had gotten into epic trouble and been banished, lost to a destiny and destination of which Colin was only vaguely aware.

J.R. Ward

#80. Choose your battles wisely and remember, what the heart knows, walks afar from reason. It simply is.

Angelo Tsanatelis

#81. Sometimes I wait for you at the exact edge of the jetty where we left each other. Sometimes I disappear into an unconscious hole and lie there silted up in stories having nothing to do with the vigorous immediacy of our epic.

Helene Cixous

#82. It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.

George R R Martin

#83. From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#84. Just think of me as a canvas and you as the paint, and try and imagine that we are creating a masterpiece that's so beautiful, that no other piece of art could rival its beauty. - Clint

Angela Richardson

#85. Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone.
Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.

Lord Arrlo Salkeld

J.P. Ashman

#86. You promise?"
"I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

Derek Landy

#87. Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#88. I have been tied up, my apologies, Abigail Miller." He chuckled deeply at his corny joke and I would have rolled my eyes, but considering he just took an epic fall, I let him have this one.

Ashlan Thomas

#89. What is this sleep which holds you now?
You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me.

The Epic Of Gilgamesh

#90. Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

Michael Connelly

#91. The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what.

Ruth Ford Elward

#92. I met a girl. We talked. It was epic. But then the sun came up and reality set in. Well, this is reality. Right here,

L.J.Smith

#93. A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

Laura Anne Gilman

#94. Seat belts. Welcome to Psi Services. I'm Zach and I'll be your driver on this epic quest to freedom. If you look out your windows
but, obviously, don't because Ruby just told you not to
you can give Nevada the finger as we pull away.

Alexandra Bracken

#95. The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#96. We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

Julie Taymor

#97. Happy birthday, Bright Side. I hope you're in charge of showtime tonight. I'm expecting nothing short of fucking incredible on behalf of your big day, just so you know. No pressure, but you'd better step up and do epic.

Kim Holden

#98. I am going to go into this world, and I don't care if you and your narrow mind cannot be a part of it.

Elise Kova

#99. We need to meet and flesh out the details of our ... you know ... whatever. I don't know what to call it. Our contract."
"I was thinking the same thing. But can we call it our epic summer romance? Contract sounds so stuffy." He smiles again.

Anne Eliot

#100. Dolchyme: "It's ... just that ... we don't get many of your kind around here. Stormling folk and all that.
Anadyr: "I'm a Storm Lord, actually."
Dolchyme: "Sheesk - if I'm not in the presence of royalty then.

John Hennessy