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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. -- Laurie Anderson
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. -- Walter Benjamin
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. -- Ernest Hemingway
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live. -- Chad Smith
And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended. -- Ferdowsi
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. -- Gabe Newell
One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house. -- Bronagh Gallagher
Epic battles never told. -- Ken Poirot
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It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. -- Hershel Shanks
Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really. -- Olly Murs
A simple right or left can mean life or death, Epic fail or nice success, Days of pleasure or nights of stress. -- Ka
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
Does it hurt?" He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. "Only when I laugh." "I'll try not to be funny." "Epic fail, beautiful. -- Rachel Caine
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos. -- Ursula Goodenough
I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. -- Mike McCready
It's Axelle's [ Carolyn] concept and she's the one who got the ball rolling. She told a few of us about it, and I brought in Epic Pictures and got it financed. -- Mike Mendez
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that. -- Warren Spector
Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming. -- Vishen Lakhiani
'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
Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms of their Church, and understand the Christian underpinnings of the modern world. This is a vivid, thorough and engaging program. I heartily recommend it. -- Charles J. Chaput
You never graduate from the school of discipleship. -- Howard G. Hendricks
You cannot impart what you do not possess. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Some may never live, but the crazy never die. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I Would Go To War With Dhoni By My Side. -- Gary Kirsten
You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. -- Karl Kraus
I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word. -- Howard G. Hendricks
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. -- Ethel Waters
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.' -- Janelle Monae
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. -- Victor Hugo
The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. -- Gerard Way
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around. -- Jane McGonigal
Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing. -- David Whyte
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. -- William Shatner
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. -- Hart Crane
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations. -- Gary Ross
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
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
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
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. -- Anatole Broyard
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. -- Jerry Saltz
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas. -- J. R. Moehringer
While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A story will interest me, and then somewhere along the way, I discover that hidden inside are these epic themes. -- Stephen Schwartz
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. -- Kevin J. Anderson
These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad. -- John Lydon
It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!' -- Tom Hardy
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling. -- Donald Miller
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro. -- Dean Koontz
Everybody lives an epic. -- James Cook
Work on nothing less than epic scale -- Francis Ford Coppola
My life is a vast inconsequential epic. -- Jack Kerouac
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic. -- Novalis
All bad writers are in love with the epic. -- Ernest Hemingway
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds. -- T.L. Rese
What would bring about a revival of epic proportion? -- Andy Stanley
THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope. -- Laird Barron
The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling. -- Terry Hayes
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. -- Charles Baudelaire
Do you know which is the greatest epic till date? -- K. Hari Kumar
It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward. -- Ally Carter
Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes. -- Dianna Agron
I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale. -- George R. R. Martin
An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly. -- Charlton Heston
I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling. -- Nina Arianda
The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have. -- E. O. Wilson
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. -- Graydon Carter
Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure. -- Christine Caine
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live! -- Amy Lee
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history. -- Edward M. Lerner
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!" -- Amy Lee
I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. -- Eli Roth
You are epic fail if you think you are better than me! -- Jordan Rudess
The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit! -- Peter Travers
Dare to dream, live with passion. Make your life an epic extraordinary adventure! -- Nik Halik
I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic! -- Ashley Madekwe
What is love? Love is an amazingly beautiful epic song of the universe -- Angie Karan
It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling. -- Libba Bray
Your life was meant to be epic. Stand up for your best today. -- Robin Sharma
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart. -- Zygmunt Bauman
I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll. -- Janelle Monae
I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off. -- Geoff Johns
I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it. -- Jami Attenberg
The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely. -- Emilia Clarke
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic. -- E. O. Wilson
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope. -- Cassandra Clare
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring. -- Spike Jonze
I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary. -- Alice McDermott
I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now. -- Dennis Lehane
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read." -- Lascelles Abercrombie
You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic? -- Karen Marie Moning
To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. -- Luiz Bolognesi
Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable. -- Donald Miller
I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. -- David Talbot
'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. -- Gerard Way
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. -- Kevin J. Anderson
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. -- Ernest Renan
--
Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic. -- Peter Jackson
[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required. -- Richard Armour
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now. -- Jane McGonigal
The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. -- Philip Roth
All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic. -- Richard Hammond
The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc. -- Lindsey Shaw

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