Epic Quotes - Page 9

• People fall in and out of love all the time, and sometimes people have numerous loves throughout their lives. But you have two epic loves and no matter who you were with, I don't think you'd ever get over or forget the other.

  Molly McAdams

  Fall, Thinking, Two

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• A simple right or left can mean life or death,
  Epic fail or nice success,
  Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

  Ka

  Nice, Stress, Rap

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• I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

  Jami Attenberg

  Crazy, Writing, Plot

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Philosopher, Poet, Colour

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.

  Enrico Fermi

  People, Feelings, Insane

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• I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

  Ashley Madekwe

  Dolls, Valleys, Four

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

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• To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic.

  Steve Aoki

  Years, Play, America

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• It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

  Colin MacInnes

  Teenage, London, Eras

  Colin MacInnes (1969). “The London novels: City of spades. Absolute beginners. Mr. Love and Justice”

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• There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

  David Benioff

  Winning, Evil, Battle

  "Game of Thrones Showrunners on Season 4: It Will Never Be 'The Epic Conflict of Good and Evil'". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 12, 2014.

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Journey, Confusion, Humanity

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

  Philip Roth

  Disaster, Terror, Unforeseen

  Philip Roth (2004). “The Plot Against America: A Novel”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world -- to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girl, Drama, Watches

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• A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door.

  Toby Barlow

  People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Opportunity, Garden, Views

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.86

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• With most electronic music I hear now, the things I like will be the things that have soul. It has to have a feeling in it, where it feels warm, or feels epic. I like to play with that in my music as well, there will always be a piano chord or something underneath it to make you feel at home. I always try and make sure even with vocals and layering that you still feel like you know me, no matter whether you're into grime or hip hop.

  Naomi Klein

  Home, Hip Hop, Soul

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Passion, Simple, Emotional

  "How we made the epic of Oz". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Party, Humor

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf

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• I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their personal experiences, because all writing is based on personal experience. I may not have gone on an epic quest through a haunted forest, but the feelings in my books are often based on feelings I've had. Real-life events, in fantasy and science fiction, can take on metaphorical significance that they can't in a so-called realistic novel.

  Malinda Lo

  Book, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I don't think that people think of Marvel in the same way that people think of Pixar. Because Pixar is story-orientated, and they think of these guys as epic movie orientated. But they're story-orientated. That's the secret.

  Amy Pascal

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

  Lucas Neff

  Ideas, People, Narrative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Richard Armour

  Art, Long, Speech

  Richard Armour (1969). “English lit relit: a short history of English literature from the precursors (before swearing) to the Pre-Raphaelites and a little after, intended to help students see the thing through, or see through the thing, and omitting nothing unimportant”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

  Tom Brokaw

  Cities, America, Long

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• 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

  Beautiful, Blessed, Stories

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• Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Holiday, Hands, Imagination

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