Epic Quotes

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. (Karl Kraus)
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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. View quote
Ajay Naidu
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which makes the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common. View quote
George Eliot
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. View quote
Henry James
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. View quote
Philip Roth
I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation. View quote
Ted Cruz
The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer, according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue. View quote
Roger Ebert
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. (Laurie Anderson)
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best” American higher criticism. View quote
Camille Paglia
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion? View quote
Samuel Richardson
I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the videogame business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies. View quote
Hiroshi Yamauchi
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. View quote
Lascelles Abercrombie
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. View quote
Lascelles Abercrombie
Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it - from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave where Cameron has shot never-before seen documentary footage specifically for this movie. View quote
James Berardinelli
Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling. View quote
James Berardinelli
I absolute adore epic journeys that require a protagonist to fight for every victory in the hopes of finding triumph. (Megan Chance)
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
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. View quote
Beau Bridges