Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

In this life at least, Our fate is rarely epic. Maybe just as well, Impervious heroes we are not…

Scott Hastie

It's a cliche to say this now, but to me, 'The Sopranos' is like Dickens. It's able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.

Stephen Merchant

The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.

Steve Maraboli

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.

T.L. Rese

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

Lascelles Abercrombie

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

Laurie Anderson

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

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

Jerry Pournelle

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

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

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

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

Three things that can't be taught: generosity, poetry and a singing voice.

Irish

The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury a...

Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK

The most carefully crafted language in our culture tends to be poetry. And poetry at its finest moments subverts our best attempts at hiding from reality... The poetry of liturgy has just this power. The liturgy contains words that have been shaped a...

Beyond Smells and Bells: The Wonder and Power of Christian Liturgy

This poetry is utilitarian—heavy-duty, industrial strength poetry. It is meant to be read aloud and, even better, memorized and recited. It is best used in the natural world where there are starlit skies, the warmth of blazing fires, and sounds and...

New Cowboy Poetry: A Contemporary Gathering

While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.

A Darkling Sea

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Walter Lucas, you’re going to marry me. And you’re getting epically laid as soon as we get home.

Frozen Heart

Do you know which is the greatest epic till date?

When Strangers meet..

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Ariel Gore