Epic Quotes - Page 6

• I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

  Ethan Hawke

  Long, Important, Three

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• You are epic fail if you think you are better than me!

  Jordan Rudess

  Thinking, Failing, Ifs

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• A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen's succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger who must be loved. Concordance is, after all, a wedding poem-leaves and pages in search of a certain passage toward harmony.

  Fady Joudah

  Character, Echoes, Self

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• Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

  Zadie Smith

  Army, Rapper, Asking Why

  "The House That Hova Built". www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

  Jerry Saltz

  Sick, Perfection, Artistic

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• I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

  Eli Roth

  Historical, Want, Medieval

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• 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

  Kids, Adventure, Skills

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• Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Leader, Reader

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• If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Teaching, Today, Tomorrow

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• The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Teacher, Taught, Students

  "You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices" by Swen Nater, Ronald Gallimore, Fitness Information Technology, Incorporated, (p. 151), 2010.

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• Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Common, Unfulfilled Potential

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• The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Apathy, Curse, University

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• The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Leader

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• In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Opposites

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2009). “As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship”, p.112, Moody Publishers

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• It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Children, Sin, Bores

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

  Howard G. Hendricks

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• In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Christian, Generations, Answers

  Howard G. Hendricks (1983). “Taking a stand: what God can do through ordinary you!”, Multnomah Pub

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• If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Want, Ifs

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• Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Teacher, Best Teacher

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• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Home, Watches, Pay

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• Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Writing

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• You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a Russian warlord. You and I just have to overcome hundreds of years' worth of deeply ingrained prejudice and taboo between our two races. Easy.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Race, Years

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

  Stephen Colbert

  Life, Jobs, Darkness

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 3, 2007), 2005–2015.

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• Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

  Joe Queenan

  Reading, Angel, Sky

  "One For The Books". Book by Joe Queenan, 2012.

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• The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.

  Lew Wallace

  Art, Nature, Architect

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