Quotes of: Epics Keyword

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Victor Hugo

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Reed Hastings

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Demian Bichir

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

Janelle Monae

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

Natasha Lyonne

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Victor Hugo

Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean – and the idea is attractive – there can be no doubt that it was as great as that of any other hero. In time his name became so much a household word that jokes and forgeries wer...

The Epic of Gilgamesh

War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity...

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

All I could determine was that it must have been a nice thing to see if it was a house you were thinking about moving into. But not so nice if it was the house you were moving out from. I could practically hear Mr Collins, who had taught my fifth-gra...

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

I am a Christian, but my time in Iraq has convinced me that God doesn't want to hear from me anymore. I've done things that He can never forgive. I've done them consciously. I've made decisions I must live with for years to come. I am not a victim. I...

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys, cliffs, streams, precipices, and slides, and as he walks t...

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.

Luke Evans

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Walter Benjamin

I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

Orlando Bloom

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

Patricia A. McKillip

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

Kevin J. Anderson