Epic Quotes - Page 18

• With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Race, Modern Journalism, Fear And Loathing

  "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1973.

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• Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Funny, Humor, Lazy

  "Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned From Leslie Nielsen" by Kevin Makice, www.wired.com. December 2, 2010.

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• As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

  Jon Meacham

  Dog, Fire, Rights

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• Good people drink good beer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Drinking, Beer

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• What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, there's The Martian Child, which is about my son and the adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.

  David Gerrold

  Children, War, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

  Henry James

  Reading, Envelopes, Reputation

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.42, 谷月社

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• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

  Cordell Hull

  Funny, Rivers, Comeback

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• So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

  Roald Dahl

  Motivational, Wall, Book

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

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• Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Money, Winning

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  In Leo Rosten People I have Loved, Known or Admired (1970) "Groucho"

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• Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Used, Dies, Gonzo Journalism

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.192, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  Victor Hugo

  Drama, History, Simplicity

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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• If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

  William Morris

  Weaving, Shut Up, Chaps

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6723, Delphi Classics

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• I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

  David Talbot

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, "If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we're living in, we will have committed an epic crime."

  Edward Norton

  Military, Cutting, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Lying, Thinking, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Cutting, Editing, Dying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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 of flesh and blood.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Stars, Hero, Men

  "What If Apollo 11 Failed? President Nixon Had Speech Ready" by Nola Taylor Redd, www.space.com. July 22, 2014.

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• The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.

  Joseph Campbell

  Brother, Ocean, Hero

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.

  Neal Stephenson

  Couple, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Strong, Real, Tragedy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure.

  Christine Caine

  Adventure, Calling, Should

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Dec 08, 2016

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• The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.

  Ron Chernow

  Art, Book, Character

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