Quotes of: Epics Keyword

Neither is necessarily a better or more valuable oarsman than the other; both the long arms and the strong back are assets to the boat. But if they are to row well together, each of these oarsmen must adjust to the needs and capabilities of the other...

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot." "What? Me?" I stammered, completely flummoxed. "Yeah," he said, still looking at me. "Oh. Um, thank you. I mean, not that you don’t, but I’m not sure that you should—I...

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

So it's a strife here, in a way, between position—between the CEO and the top salesman; between the principal and the best teacher; between Miller Huggins, the manager, and Babe Ruth, the best baseball player who ever lived; between the person who ...

Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: Approaching the Epic in Literature

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

Nigel Lythgoe

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

Cassandra Clare

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

Gig Young

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

Kevin McKidd

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.

Melissa Auf der Maur

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

Lindsey Shaw

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

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

Emilia Clarke

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

George R. R. Martin

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

Gerard Way

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich land of ours would bestow upon us if we wished, a...

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

And he came to understand how those almost mystical bonds of trust and affection, if nurtured correctly, might lift a crew above the ordinary sphere, transport it to a place where nine boys somehow became one thing - a thing that could not quite be d...

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group is responsible for its continuance.... Both races need to understand that their rights and duties are mutual...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

Dandelion Dreams

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

Ridley Scott

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

John Boyega

After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'

Jim Sturgess

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Giles Foden