Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Condon

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.

C. S. Lewis

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Lascelles Abercrombie

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Kris Holden-Ried

I love period pieces. It's where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That's what I hope to find myself in, in the future.

Richelle Mead

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.

Al Gore

Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

Kevin McKidd

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

Marie Lu

My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!

Naomi Cooke

She is great subject matter for a play. It is an epic story.

Michael Chapman

Some kind of historical use for the tribe would be ideal, but we don't have the resources, ... We'd probably want the property with the main building, but that'll be very competitive.

Diana Gabaldon

Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a different time or they're learning something,

Romesh Gunesekera

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Luis Restrepo

It is a very important thing that the historical structure of the BCB has been demobilized.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

Carrie Fisher

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

Ashley Tisdale

Producing is just a big learning experience.

Dominika Cibulkova

You don't have to be big to be great.

Brian Lamb

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

Ashthon Jones

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

David Boreanaz

I like to direct for the big screen.

Colin Farrell

I'm a big old romantic.

Billy Graham

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Ludwig von Mises

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.