Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annalee Newitz

Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

It's really quite an epic thing. I think it tends to get overlooked because it's just a little mission, and there aren't any people on board.

It was a great match. Those two always have epic battles. It was good to see him take the initiative and get the win.

Ridley Scott

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

We don't think that its necessary to take a prescriptive approach, which is what EPIC is suggesting for security.

Donald Miller

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World

Annalee Newitz

If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.

Jack Kerouac

My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Every time I have a bikini wax, Cameron Diaz holds me down.

Shawn Levy

I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.

This is actually a very sprawling, epic movie.

Robin Hobb

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'

John Boyega

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

The thing that I'm seeing - it looks like the game is going to be an epic battle. We're seeing the same thing on eBay.

Jerry Saltz

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

Christopher Isherwood

His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting.

Jerry Pournelle

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

Enrico Fermi

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.

Francis Ford Coppola

Work on nothing less than epic scale

Joel Edgerton

'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.

Janelle Monae

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

Ethan Hawke

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

Ernest Renan

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

Hart Crane

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Hunter S. Thompson

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

Hunter S. Thompson

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

Hunter S. Thompson

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Hunter S. Thompson

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

Hunter S. Thompson

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Howard Shore

I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

Natasha Lyonne

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.