Quotes and Sayings About Epic
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Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.
-- A. E. Douglass -
It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
-- Aaron Levie -
I'll pay to watch MS Dhoni Bat. Dhoni is not the next Gilchrist. He's the first MS Dhoni.
-- Adam Gilchrist -
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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 -
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.
-- Alain LeRoy LockeSource : Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title
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You just Sanisa in the death overs. He is simply the best in the world.
-- Alastair Cook -
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It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.
-- Ally CarterSource : Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.68, Hachette UK
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My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
-- Amy Lee -
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 -
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
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I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!
-- Ashley Madekwe -
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.
-- Augusto Roa Bastos -
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 LuhrmannSource : "How we made the epic of Oz". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.
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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 -
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Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.
-- Belle de Jour -
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
-- Bill Condon -
Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
-- Brian Swimme -
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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 -
The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
-- Burt Reynolds -
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?"  "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"  "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.
-- Carrie VaughnSource : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK
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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 -
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
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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 -
An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.
-- Charlton Heston