Epic War Sayings

#1. Not everyone who spoke to you friendly was really your friend.

George R R Martin

#2. Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I've just found all of my ideas I've been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.

Mark Millar

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

James L. Cambias

#4. If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

Max Brooks

#5. Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

Caleb Deschanel

#6. There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

Jacob Latimore

#7. Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

Elizabeth George

#8. With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.

Tobias Hill

#9. ...seeing everything, yet a part of nothing.

George R R Martin

#10. It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.

George R R Martin

#11. I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

Sally Rand

#12. In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

Dexter Filkins

#13. I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

William Monahan

#15. I Would Go To War With Dhoni By My Side.

Gary Kirsten

#16. It was Vyasa's genius to take the whole great Mahabharata epic and see it as metaphor for the perennial war between the forces of light and the forces of darkness in every human heart.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#17. I think everyone has their personal stands, and everyone has challenges in their life.

Anna Popplewell

#18. On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit.

Homer

#19. The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

George R R Martin

#20. A lot has changed, and now we're going off to fight a war neither of us wanted. So I'm asking you now, again, if you will bind yourself to me as my wife, now and forever.

Carison to Raven

Ruth Ford Elward

#21. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

#22. I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me.

Bram Stoker

#23. The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

Caroline Alexander

#24. You must think I'm a total idiot."
"Nah. I am starting to wonder if you're trying to beat Keefe's record for biggest interspeciesial episode- and if you are, I'm pretty sure you've won. The Great Gulon Incident was epic, but it didn't almost start a war.

Shannon Messenger

#25. Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?

John Milton

#26. Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

Nancy Atherton

#27. Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure ...
For already have I suffered full much,
and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.
Let this be added to the tale of those.

Homer

#28. When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will.

Justin Trudeau

#29. My life wasn't just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.
Permanently.

Brandon Sanderson

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

James Palmer

#31. 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